Fall into a sleep paralysis, mind-travel
Nocturnal visionary experience
Journey to leave your body behind
By magic believe in the sacred task.
Deus, Non Serviam
A healer among the animals and the spirits
Goddess figure is praised; The Abbess
The defender of the harvests and the crops
The protector of the fertility of the fields
Deus, Non Serviam
Fly high through blackened sky
For the dead travel fast
Troops of flying evil witches
Imitating rites by magical feast
Rituals in ancient mythology
Strengthen a reborning might and lust
Deus, Non Serviam
Fly high through blackened sky
For the dead travel fast
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1692 in Jürgensburg, Livonia, an area near the Baltic Sea, an old man named Theiss was tried for being a werewolf; his defense was that his spirit (and that of others) transformed into werewolves in order to fight demons and prevent them from stealing grain from the village. *Ginzburg has shown that his arguments, and his denial of belonging to a Satanic cult, corresponded to those used by the benandanti witches.
