Taken from their latest album The Missing Star, Lunatraktors have shared a video for their second album track ‘My Witch‘ which is also our Song of the Day. In his review of the album, Billy Rough concluded, it was “…a recording that will linger in your thoughts…We need this.”
Dedicated “to all our beloved witches around the world” they shared the following on the My Witch:
The lyrics are taken from a 16th century ‘love poem’ by Nicholas Breton; a classic piece of misogyny, blaming a man’s infatuation on a woman’s bewitching charms. Written in this case at a time when hundreds of people were being tortured, burned or drowned because their neighbours had denounced them as witches.
One hotbed of the witch-hunting craze was Essex. Some scenes of our video were shot in the graveyard of St Michael’s church, Pitsea. Now deconsecrated, the spire turned into a mobile telephone mast, St. Michael’s is famous for having a ‘witch’s grave’. In reality, this grave – which denounces the occupant as a “weak and sinful worm, vilest of her race” – is the final resting place of Ann Freeman, who became pregnant by her father’s assistant, who then abandoned her and their baby.
The other location is a site called ‘Stone Chapel’ near Faversham. It was the location of a small Roman temple, followed by a Christian chapel, both probably built on an even earlier sacred site…
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