Thirteen Autumns And A Widow

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The Betrayal Of Elizabeth Bathory

"Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night
Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light
A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas
Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed
To the ravenous wolves that the elements led
From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease

Through the maw of the woods, a black carriage was drawn
Flanked by barbed lightning that hissed of the storm
(Gilded in crests of Carpathian breed)
Bringing slaves to the sodomite for the new-born
On that eve when the Countess' own came deformed
A tragedy crept to the name Bathory

So with windows flung wide to the menstrual sky
Solstice Eve She fled the castle in secret
A daughter of the storm, astride Her favourite nightmare
On winds without prayer

Secrets brooded as She rode
Through mist and marsh to where they showed
Her castle walls wherein the restless
Counted carrion crows

She awoke from a fable to mourning
Church bells wringing Her madly from sleep
Tolled by a priest, self castrated and hung
Like a crimson bat 'neath the belfry

But Elizabeth laughed, thirteen Autumns had passed
And She was a widow from god and His wrath, finally..."

Part of the lyrics from Cradle of filth, thirteen autumns and a widow from the album Cruelty and the beast / Midnight at the labyrinth

Made an interpretation - digital painting (pscs5) of that part of the song which I really enjoyed and pictured so well...