CHELSEA WOLFE // DUSK
[SINGLE, SEPT 2023]
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Above: pages from CD booklet of Waldteufel “Heimliches Deutschland” for the song “Wodans Wilde Jagd”. Lyrics originally by poet Theodor Körner written in 1813.
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In his “Deutsche Mythologie” Jacob Grimm describes the Wild Hunt as “The natural phenomenon of howling and wind is attributed to Wodan’s Wagon. With noise at night (…) Odin is passing by.”
Wotan would lead a group of supernatural beings, sometimes ancestors or warriors, with great noise in the night sky. The folk would not view it, facedown and hoping for no harm or to be swept away. In parts of Germany and Austria, well into the 1800’s, there were some still frightened of the Wild Hunt. The book The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil references an 1832 German newspaper which stated “our agrarian laborers (…) were so terrified by the wild hunt they would barely dare go into the fields”.
Interestingly, Frau Perchta - who’s origin can likely be traced back to pagan goddess tradition (Norns, Frigg) – has even been linked to the Wild Hunt. She lives throughout the centuries in Germanic regional folklore, some which mixed with Catholic faith. Frau Perchta became a kind of folk horror creature, a witch with a sickle, occasionally an iron nose, mostly concerned with house visits and female servants, who she would disembowel or hunt those that displease her.
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Death in June interview with Fifth Path magazine (1991)
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Announcement!
My shop is now open!
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CHELSEA WOLFE // SALT
[SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE, FEB 2024]
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Douglas P (from Misery & Purity)
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