Gothic room decor – cheap ways of getting your own bat cave

Home decoration is something I have a crush on but though I have a foot into the goth scene I don’t like this extremely black thing. My wardrobe is indeed filled with black garments – but this is something I’ve been changing lately because I don’t have time nor the patience for dressing like a victorian crow all the time. This is pointless. Instead of buying everything black I’ve given a chance for other colors, like red and blown. My house is far from being a goth or medieval realm. Actually one would never guess a goth girl lives here, except for the witch dolls on my shelves: the walls are light yellow, the curtain almost white and there’s absolutely nothing indicating my tastes. I don’t usually hang band posters on the walls, though I had a few pictures of random bands a while ago, but it also said nothing about me enjoying the subculture. I joked a little on the title referring to batman because of my cousin. He mocks me every time he visits us by saying: I’m going up there in your bat cave”. I’d never take it as offense. I think it’s pretty cool since he’s a very religious guy.

People look forward decorating their houses to make it a cozy place, and I don’t see why it should be different with Goths. So I thought up a few ways you can decorate your sweet home to make it resemble your personality. Remember: Good sense is always a helpful tool, there is no point in turning your home into a satanist temple, alright?

Rugs, tapestries, curtains and such: always a good start

Instead of buying paraphernalia such as pumpkins, fake blood and spider webs (save them for when you throw a Halloween party), consider adding customized bed linen, curtains and rugs to your room. Victorian rugs are by far the easiest thing to find, since it’s a classical pattern and any good store should have it. For tapestries it might be a little harder, for you must order it from specific shops specialized in customization (unless you customize them yourself). The second option is obviously the cheapest but it requires talent. Bed linen is also a simple way of giving your room a quite elegant look. Overall vintage patterns are commonly seen in the goth subculture, specially polka dot and stripes - remember they're trendy right now. Red roses and skull linen would go perfectly well with red walls, but if you think red is way too heavy for a wall you can put only red victorian frames to match the linen. Either way is fine. 

I bought three black provencal framed portraits to hang on the wall but since I live in a rented apartment I’ll probably have to bring them to my family’s house, it’s not a good idea to make holes in the wall when the apartment is someone else’s, hehe. I found them for only $ 6 in a second hand shop I frequent. I personally love these frames because of their elegant and antique look, once you have a black and white picture of you on them it feels like you’re from another time^^. Mine are made of porcelain, but you can also find wooden frames in crafts stores.

This bedspread reminded me of Emilie Autumn, lol. 

These cushions are not at all hard to do it yourself. And again, these patterns are trendy nowadays so you should find them easily. All you will need is a sewing machine, some meters of lace, the fabric, something to fill the cushion and a few pattern pieces for cutting the fabric correctly. Depending on the shape of the cushion you must draw either a circle or a square on the paper, as simple as that! 

Furniture, candles, skulls and paintings

If you have too little money even for the ideas given above there’s still something pretty cheap you can do. Buy wooden frames and paint the borders yourself, then google for artists whose works fall within the scope of goth. I can name a few ones: Mark Ryden, Jessicka Addams, Natalie Shau, Kukula… the list could go on forever (nah). The ideia here is to print your favorite pictures and hang them on the wall using your newest customized frames. Old clocks are also a good alternative and are among the stuff we find in attics.  We goths love candles, antique dolls, skulls and this sort of creepy stuff, don't we? On this post Gothic Furniture I uploaded a few images of what might look great for our bat cave. 

Gothic decorations are typically arranged with antique furniture. Like I said before: vintage is trendy nowadays which means you can get them for lower prices. The industry has been manufacturing furniture inspired in old centuries though the quality of the wood is not the same. At least you can get an old-fashioned bookshelf customized in different colors. I would personally recommend black, red or purple.

In the city where I’m currently living there’s a point where second hand shops of all sorts are located, so I’ll usually hang around over there whenever I’m shopping for clothes. I remember passing in front of a store that was selling a victorian purple sofa.I didn’t dare to ask for the price but it really caught by attention. I just wondered where it had come from, who had owned it and why the hell they were getting rid of such precious thing!

If you want to "goth" the rest of your home this tissue holder might be interesting:

Haha this is great.

Would you ever undergo cosmetic surgery to get elven pointed ears?

Otitis. What a dreadful way of beginning the New Year. 2015 came with good food, drinks, expectations and an inflammation in my middle ear. For 6 days I couldn’t sleep at all – let alone the horrible pain and loss of hearing, which I took long to recover. The doctor prescribed such a huge list of drugs to me that would make anybody believe we’re starting our own pharmacy. For days I wandered in my house with a hot water bottle pressed to my left ear, in a terrible mood. Doctor asked if I’d rather take an injection to stop the pain but I denied vehemently! These injections used to get our bodies rid of bacteria are the most painful ones! If I took it I would most certainly end up with one hot water bottle in my ear and another one in my ass! Nope! Today I woke up with another infection, this time in my throat. Not again…

But what does my low immune system has to do with the pointed ears? Well, this sort of made me reflect about the plastic issue. Not long ago I ran into an article about a Canadian alternative model called Melynda Moon who had her ears shaped to make them look like elven’s ears. This practice is taking ground not only among public personalities, but also among cosplayers and such. I’m among the thousands of Tolkien’s fans, LARP players (live action role-playing game) and elf lovers from all around the world that long for slipping into neverland (here I mean any world ever created in fantasy literature). Like many of these folks out there I have a pair of elven ears wearied now and then, but would I ever consider getting permanent points where my humanlike round cartilage used to be?

The procedure also known as Spock’s ears consists of cutting the top of the cartilage, removing a small part of it and stitching the parts forming a point.  

The two half-elves: Kimberleigh Roseblade and model Melynda Moon.

When I first heard of it I thought to myself: Wow, it’s cool, these girls are really brave and above all else they have something I truly admire in someone: they don’t give a damn about what others think of them. I personally love people who have personality and don’t do something just because everybody else does. Melynda seems this kind of person. I don’t follow her work but from what I could grasp she has her own style, something “doll like” and alternative – I won’t dare to slot her into a specific style. Looking at the outcome of the surgery in both girls we see beautiful human-elves. For me their ears look great and extremely realistic.

Opinions on these girls’s decision may vary, but indeed the highest rate of acceptance will come from the youngest generations; after all they’re growing up in a society where any type of body modification is common, from colorful hair and piercing to silicon and botox. But of course, opinions are what they are: mere opinions. For those who are interested in the procedure the only opinion that really counts is the doctor’s. I'm biased in this issue; after all I'm familiar with the elvish mythology. My opinion obviously involves taste, but you shouldn't really expect older people (or people who aren't familiar with Tolkien or Norse mythology) to look at your modified ears and find them the most beautiful thing they've ever seen. I accept and admire these ears but that's because of my background knowledge of the elvish literature, games, etc. Most people will say it's pathetic (consider they don't have the slightest idea what an elf is!) and throw accusations of body mutilation at whoever gets it done.

But let’s try not to be cynical in this matter: There’s no point in someone arguing that getting elven ears is a pathetic mutilation if this person has done or plans to get any other unnecessary body modification – it includes breast augmentation and even worse: rib removal! We’re aware of the high rates of these pointless surgeries in the world, and they’re not higher just because most people don’t have the money to afford it. Honestly, I'd rather see dozens of people modifying their ears than see people injecting silicon for sexual purposes. The media is currently bursting with cases of women who made truly pathetic body transformations for the silliest reasons. Check the case of the brazilian model who injected so much silicon into her body that it began to rot inside her and now she’s between life and death. In my opinion everyone is free to decide what they want to change in their bodies - as long as take up the consequences. The brazilian media has recently made a fuss about the model’s critical health condition, blaming the society, blaming the men and everyone who they believe to be responsible for what happened to the lady. Excuse me? The decision of injecting only god knows how many liters of silicon was hers, consequently the fault of what happened is hers alone. She knew the risks. 

Words from these ladies seem to have spread and since people know how much I love elves they keep asking me if I would change my ears someday. It’s funny when I’m confronted with this question. I’m normally a joker so I’ll go: But of course! If someday I have money to perform it I’ll surely do it! When I say that those who don’t know me enough roll their eyes because they know I’m kidding, and those who know me too well roll their eyes the same way because they really believe I’d do it. My answer is no. As a child I suffered from adenoid hypertrophy and had to undergo two surgeries to remove it. Though I can’t recall precisely the age I also underwent a treatment with monthly allergy shots to treat my rhinitis. After all this I would never feel comfortable to undergo such pointless surgery procedures. As simple as the surgery to get elven ears might seem, it has its risks. We must take into account not only the risks of infection during or after the surgery but also the long term problems that it might cause, like ear deformation, since our ears never stop growing and once you sculpt it, the natural growing might interfere in the pointed shape.

~Candy Brain~

A postagem de hoje é muito mais uma divulgação de uma banda que acabei de conhecer do que qualquer outra entrada de diário convencional. Também não deixa de ser uma ótima oportunidade para retomar as postagens sobre música que há tempos não são publicadas. Pois bem, com vocês Candy Brain!

Depois de tantas tentativas frustradas de encontrar algum artista que soasse razoavelmente parecido com a minha banda preferida de todos os tempos, eu tenho a alegria de finalmente ter encontrado o artista que me remeteu aos bosques violetas encantados da fase old school do The Birthday Massacre. Quem estiver familiarizado com os álbuns Imagica (entre outras demos) e Nothing & Nowhere vai sentir na pele o mesmo arrepio causado por esses dois discos adoráveis. Graças ao instrumental sintetizado docilmente à la anos 80 em combinação com guitarras pesadas e um vocal muito parecido com o da Chibi, o Candy Brain consegue criar a mesma atmosfera do típico Horror & Fantasy que vem sendo feito pelo The Birthday Massacre ao longo dos anos.

Formada em Nova York por Bunny R. Abbit , Tina Stichr, Ink-Bot e Rachel Zyats, a banda vem de 2011até o momento tocando em festivais alternativos locais e ganhando fama na cena alternativa. Infelizmente eles ainda não lançaram nada com exceção de algumas músicas soltas e suas versões demos. Como os fãs antenados devem estar sabendo, o The Birthday Massacre também está trabalhando em mais um disco, que segundo informações será lançado em novembro. O interessante é que pelo que andei pesquisando na página oficial do Candy Brain eles dividirão palco com o TBM em breve. Não é perfeito? 

Espero que com essa postagem eu consiga espalhar um pouquinho sobre a banda entre outros sonhadores que buscam trilhas sonoras para que assim possam voar “over clouds and twilight skies”, como diz a letra da canção The Dream do The Birthday Massacre.

~Precaution~

~The Inkwell~
     

~The Asylum~

Es gibt keinen Gott, es gibt kein Leben, sie werden alle sterben, ohne die Erlösung

Roteiro de férias I: Exposição de instrumentos medievais de tortura

Sim, finalmente estou de férias e consegui visitar esta belíssima exposição que já me escapou por entre os dedos inúmeras vezes. Não faz muito tempo que ela passou por Curitiba, mas a distância do local fez com que minha indolência superasse meu gosto por Idade Média. Dessa vez ela está passando por São Bento do Sul e eu descobri com antecedência e bem por acaso enquanto ia comprar cordas para o meu instrumento, já que o museu que está recebendo a exposição fica bem no caminho da loja que eu precisava ir. Fiquei tão empolgada que antes de fazer minha visita ouvi repetidamente a música Heretique da banda Tristania (para entrar no espírito da coisa). Não contente com isso, é claro que eu aproveitei a oportunidade para ir trajada à época com minha blusa preta aveludada de camponesa. Por incrível que pareça o pequeno museu que recebeu a exposição estava lotado para um domingo. Fiquei tão emocionada por estar diante daquelas relíquias históricas que as pessoas ao meu redor devem no mínimo ter pensado que sou louca – isso porque elas nem imaginam que passo grande parte dos meus dias ouvindo baladas medievais. 

Quanto ao que registrei, o que mais me chamou atenção foi a Cadeira da Inquisição, como segue na primeira foto. Ela foi trazida do Castelo de San Leo, próximo a Rimini, na Itália. Instrumento essencial usado pelo inquisidor, a cadeira era usada na Europa Central, especialmente em Nurembergue, onde é usada até 1846 durante regulares interrogatórios dos processos. O réu devia sentar-se nu e com o mínimo de movimento, as agulhas penetravam no corpo provocando efeitos terríveis. Em outras versões, a cadeira apresentava o assento de ferro, que podia ser aquecido até ficar em brasas. Não consegui registrar tudo ainda, mas pretendo fazer uma segunda visita no próximo mês. Entre outros instrumentos que podem ser vistos abaixo estão: Antiga guilhotina (depois da exposição me disseram que tinha um cesto ao lado onde caia a cabeça da pessoa, mas acho que fiquei tão impressionada com a guilhotina que não vi...); esmagador de cabeças, chibatas, ferramentas utilizadas para “salvar a alma do herege”, empalada, flauta do bagunceiro, entre outros.

Série: Brechós de Curitiba Pt 1: O Brechó do Relógio

Já que meu blog está largado às traças e ao mofo mesmo eu tendo uma quantidade razoável de coisas atrasadas esperando para serem publicadas, vou aproveitar esta semana que estarei de folga na faculdade para começar de uma vez por todas minha série sobre brechós.  Dado meu gosto antigo e refinado, não é de se estranhar que eu tenha uma quedinha por brechós, por isso pretendo escrever sobre alguns brechós de Curitiba, focando principalmente naqueles localizados no Centro Histórico da cidade. Curitiba é uma cidade cheia de easter eggs para aqueles que gostam de se embrenhar pelos quatro cantos em caminhadas de final de tarde, de olhos arregalados à espreita de lojas interessantes que apenas os mais astutos encontram. Quando se fala em brechós então a coisa fica ainda mais empolgante. Após várias caminhadas na Rua Riachuelo eu encontrei a loja perfeita para iniciar essa série de postagens:

Conhecido como “O Brechó do Relógio”, sua localização estratégica torna o Brechó Curitiba ponto obrigatório na visita de qualquer pessoa que passe por ali. A fachada do prédio – onde antigamente funcionava a relojoaria Raeder – chama a atenção de longe, não só por sua arquitetura antiga e charmosa, mas também por um grande relógio trazido de Leipzig, Alemanha. A decoração surpreende qualquer fã de antiguidades: são bonecas antigas, louças, pinturas de diversas épocas, relógios e móveis restaurados por quem entende de decoração. 

O que achei particularmente interessante nessa loja é a facilidade com a qual se encontram peças para eventos históricos e teatrais. Em uma de minhas peregrinações em busca de alguma peça para usar no Torneio Medieval que terá na região metropolitana eu encontrei um lindo vestido preto de veludo. O corte dele se assemelha mais às roupas masculinas da época, mas não é nada que uma reforma não dê jeito. O mais surpreendente? Paguei apenas R$ 16 na peça! Para quem procura por anáguas, o Brechó Curitiba também é ponto obrigatório.

Atentem para o fato de que infelizmente nem tudo na loja está a venda! Quadros, mobília antiga e algumas bonecas são meramente objetos decorativos. Porém, há algumas exceções: Em uma de minhas primeiras visitas ao local me apaixonei por algumas bonecas com mais de cem anos de idade que estavam sendo vendidas para colecionadores (adoraria ter tirado foto delas para incrementar a postagem, mas os compradores foram mais rápidos do que eu). Lindos conjuntinhos de xícaras e píres de porcelana também estão expostos na vitrine, esperando que ladies à moda vitoriana passem em frente com suas sombrinhas e ao vê-las, acabem se lembrando que precisam de louças decoradas para seu chá da tarde... 

PS: Perdoem meu hábito de tremer na hora de bater a foto, ah, e também a péssima qualidade da minha câmera!

Detalhe do provador e da vitrine: decorados com obras de arte, lustre customizado e quadros de pop art:

Já pensou encontrar Homer Simpson, Fofão (e seu irmão(?)), E.T., Shreak, Fiona e um dos três porquinhos no mesmo lugar? No Brechó Curitiba isso é possível!

De acordo com algumas matérias que andei lendo sobre a loja, o proprietário pretende expandir o local transformando-o também em um café. Seria no mínimo interessante se além de oferecer café e doces o ambiente também funcionasse ao som de baladinhas retrô, eh? 

Para mais informações:

Endereço: Rua Riachuelo, 147 Centro – Curitiba –PR.

Fone: 9817-4047

Para vendas ou trocas, falar com Lili.

The witch is inside of me, her poison will wash away the memory

Since I couldn’t make up my mind whether I preferred elves to witches, I decided to blend them hoping to give life to a gracious female character for upcoming rpg campaigns and also for the book I (was/am – not sure) writing. I named this sorcerer-elf after my nickname (or maybe I was named after her…). She’s often the character present in my drawings, for every artist needs a muse who can inspire him! I have no interest in listing accomplishments for the new year like methodic people do as a ritual, but in 2014 I want to put some old projects on its feet, and the first thing to be done is to start my dream drawing/painting course! My collection of pencils, tortillions and ink will definitely be put to work as soon as I go back to Curitiba. According to my schedule I’ll have a few hours off before the translation class (Yeah! My translation course begins this semester!) which gives me half a morning to spend at some arts school near my college.

I fucking love witches!

For most of the vacation I watched a few movies that were on queue for the past 3 years or more, including Blair Witch I and II, Season of the Witch, Black Death, Robin Hood, Dark Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Dark Shadows, Sinister, Mirrors, The Woman in Black and a few others. It was my mom who awoke my appetite for movies with the wonderful “Sack of Bones”, adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Horror movies are great options especially when there’s a witch on the plot! 

Some funny things happened to me after hours in front of my computer playing, watching the movies above and reading about paganism and witchcraft:

Curious fact one: the combination of my pills and fantasy movies before going to bed  granted me with weird dreams involving the middle ages, witchcraft, zombies, me casting spells from Giants Citizen Kabuto and a nighttime flight with my victorian umbrella ‘.’

Curious fact two: One night I dreamed of a Blair Witch Project T-shirt. It was dark and I was flying again, holding a knife in search of victims!

Curious fact three: my family and friends are pretty concerned about my mental health :x

Curious fact four: I find it all amazing and am already searching for shirts to customize with the Blair Witch’s Voodoo symbol! :D

Now, if you feel like sharing the experience of psychotic dreams, go ahead! These are my favorite witch ladies and its respective movies:

The Salem Witches (or The Crucible)

The Witch Trials are intensily explored by the film industry, given its rich background involving sometimes the middle ages or the beginning of the modern age (the number of people accused of witchcraft in this time was far worse than that of the Middle Ages). Despite what people might imagine after consuming countless fantasy books, in New England the suspects of practicing magic weren’t connected to paganism like medieval folks, most just didn’t follow blindly what was demanded by the church. But indeed the most fascinating thing  that comes into our minds when we think of witches are the pagan rituals, gods and goddesses, Celtic mythology, etc. I was always curious to know how common men could catch such powerful women! They were suppose to cast spells to defend themselves, so how… In fact I wish they existed *-* Anyway, The Crucible is not about magic, but about witch trials against innocent people.  

Black Death

Oh this picture reveals exactly the stereotype in which I slot most witches: a beautiful young lady, with long hair, elegant dark garments, carrying a basket full of mushrooms and other herbs while she wanders in the woods looking like a defenseless lady… But try to touch her and wait until she casts a spell to crush you. This girl is the witch and necromancer in the medieval movie Black Death. The story begins with a few knights reaching a monastery in search of some monk who can lead them to a heathen village that seems to resist the plague. Believing that the locals have broken their faith and alliance with god, they’re gathering strength to kill the witch responsible for bringing paganism into the Christian England. Obs: Sean Bean is on the cast, and yes, he dies ._.

Blair Witch Project

If I was a witch I’d want to have Elly Kedward’s power along with the grace of Angelique from Dark Shadows. The so called "Blair Witch" actually never appeared in the movie, and it was certainly a fine ingredient to put our imagination to work. Her habitat and voodoos made out of wood is very proper for an elf, don’t you think?

Dark Shadows

Good movie, though I’m not a big fan of comedy. It is said that a man shouldn’t refuse a witch woman’s love, and if he does, he must suffer the consequences! The movie begins with the return of Barnabas Collins, a man who was turned into a creature of the night by the sweet Angelique. She was played by Eva Green, now do you want to know what is funny? A few years ago she incarnated in another witch: Serafina Pekkala from the Golden Compass. The only difference is that Serafina is more like a wicca girl, whereas Angelique is the devil himself. What I like about her? Watch the movie and see the way she moves her hands everytime she casts a spell. And what can she do? It’s wiser to ask: what can’t she do.

The Season of The Witch

The best movie ever!! I remember reading the reviews years ago before the release. At the time another medieval movie was in progress: Your Highness. Unfortunately this one was a totally waste of money and time, for it’s a stupid medieval version of American pie! The Season of the Witch focus on witch trials, but this time some of the women being chased are really sorcerers. And powerful ones. The story involves a knight (Nicolas Cage) who fought in the crusades and then deserted. Trying to serve the church again he accepts the mission of taking a girl accused of witchcraft to a monastery (very similar to Black Death, eh?). On the way strange things start to happen and the little faith he has left is put at stake. Great movie, and my favorite :D

Faun♥

Faun is a german band that creates beautiful medieval ballads capable of taking any dreamer back to the middle ages. The songs lead us through woods filled with mythic creatures, so that we may encounter elves, witches and fauns, until we finally reach the high lands of Asgard, where we dance songs dedicated to Iduna.   

They evidently create a parallel between Norse, Egyptian, Greek and Latin mythology (the band’s name is quite suggestive: Faun is a mythical creature from the Latin mythology bond to fertility, he’s the kipper of the woods and is usually associated to music). The most known faun is the god Pan, always represented carrying his flute, while he wanders through the forest and dances with the nymphs. Some songs bringing concepts of latin mythology are: Alba (a city believed to have been founded by Eneias), Lupercadia (Pan’s Temple) and Arcadia (Yes, this term you for so many times heard during literature classes is the name of Pan’s homeland). In the Greek imaginary, Arcadia was full of hills and flock of sheeps, away from the cities (here comes the idea of living in touch with the nature: the bucolic).  

Fortunately for deutsch Lerners like me, most lyrics are written in this language. If you search the translations you’ll find yourself staring at lovely poetry (and in this case, listening to it). Read some verses of the song Isis (an Egyptian goddess connected to the nature and magic): ~Ich höre deine Stimme in dem Wind, Ich sterbe im Winter, ich stehe dir bei, Ich wachse im Regen, ich spüre den Wind, Ich spüre die Erde, ich halte dein Kind~ (Eu ouço sua voz no vento, Eu morro no inverno,  Eu cresci na chuva, eu posso sentir o vento, Eu sinto a terra, eu acho que sou seu filho).

Von Den Elben

~Muitos homens são enfeitiçados pelas fadas,

da mesma forma eu também fui enfeitiçado,

com o grande charme da melhor

a quem um homem pode ter amado.~

♥Thymian und Rosmarin♥:

~Du sagst Du stehst kurz vor dem Ziel

Ich glaube der, der ich verfiel

Du sprichst im Traum von einem Ort

den es nicht gibt, doch bist du dort~

(Você diz que está à beira

 Acredito que por isso me recusou.

 Você fala de um sonho, de um lugar que não existe,

 Mas você fala como se estivesse lá.)

Das Tor
~Ich werde dir eine Blume geben
und du mir eine
Ich werde dir meine Hand geben
und du mir deine
die Nacht, die Nacht, sie wird nicht mehr sein
 nur eine Wiese mit Blumen~


(Eu vou te dar uma flor
 E você me dará outra (tradução: mais ou menos isso)

Vou te dar minha mão
você e eu
a noite, a noite, ele deixará de ser
apenas um gramado com flores)

Hymn To Pan

~Listen now, Great Pan he calls us
From the green wood in his grove
'neath the waxing moon above us
Hear his clear flute sweet and low~

The vocals are alternated among Fiona Rüggeberg, Oliver Pade and Lisa Pawelke. Since 1998, year they banded, seven full-lengths were launched: “Zaubersprüche”, “Licht”, “Eden”, “Totem”, “Renaissance”, “Buch Der Balladen” e “Von Den Elben” – not necessarily in this order. In the oldest albums the songs used to sound more acoustic than nowadays, but they always added modern tricks, differing themselves from Krauka, for instance, a band that tries to make authentic Viking music by playing old instruments rebuilt by archeologists (this is the closer to viking music we’ll ever hear). Though Faun make constant use of technological resources , it doesn’t make their music bad at all, for their use of typical medieval instruments, like bagpipes, flutes, harp, lutes, hurdy-gurdy (intensely played by the bards), etc, make it possible for any listener to imagine he’s dancing around the fire of a medieval village, surrounded by magic creatures. Watch the video below where some of the previous instruments are displayed with more details:

Eden is my favorite album and also the first one I had the pleasure of listening to. The first song to slave my soul was The Market Song: the sweet rhythm of the flute, the lyrics about medieval fares, the woods in harvest time, the parties and dances – all this atmosphere combined with a lovely melody. I find this song very similar to Diese Kalte Nacht, from the album Von den Elben. Curiosity: Eden’s cover art was drawn by Brian Froud, who works with medieval fantasy along with his wife. Their work is a real show of goblins, elves, witches, trolls and so on. One of the most beautiful songs in this album is called Iduna. I know a nice story about this goddess:  

~In the old tales from the Norse mythology it is believed that there’s a young goddess called Iduna, who’s in charge of carrying a chest of golden apples capable of keeping the god’s immortality. Without these apples they’d perish like any mortal creature. Once Odin ordered that a new world ought to be raised to give the gods some shelter against their worst enemy: the giants. This world, that would be later called Asgard (the god’s homeland), was then summoned. One day, while the gods were all gathered admiring the work, a horseman came close to the party and noticed that the boundaries that should be protecting Asgard were nowhere to be seen. He offered his work as master builder, quickly receiving the god’s allowance, especially Odin’s. The problem began when Loki (another god) decided to make a dare with the horseman: if he accomplished the task within six months, he could have Iduna’s hand in marriage. Loki obviously didn’t think it was possible for a mortal man to do such a thing. Unfortunately, as time passed by, all signs pointed that he would indeed finish the boundaries in time. Loki was then under the pressure of the other gods (they were all suspicious about this mere mortal’s extreme strength), and had to come up with a plan to discover who was that mysterious master builder. So, one night Loki disguised himself as a female horse, attracting the man’s horse into the woods. Without the horse’s help, the man had to reassume his original shape, revealing to be a giant. Thor, then, thrown his powerful hammer and smashed the giant’s head, who had his body thrown to the fogs of Nilfheim (the world of the dead).~ ♥

Diese kalte Nacht♥  
Alba♥
The Market Song
Tanz Mit Mir
Warte Auf Mich♥
Iduna
Rani
Hymn to Pan
Pearl
Ynis Avalach
Wenn Wir Uns Wiedersehen
Thymian und Rosmarin