1 level is about sleepy person. She goes to another world - the world of dreams. And there is a place where she meets the witch. And the witch asks for help.
2 level - I think its about real witch. She fell in love with the man or maybe demon (?)and they "made love" before wedding. "Red roses" is a symbol for sensual lo ve. "Help the blackbird" Blackbird in Christian tradition - symbol of flesh, desire, sexuality. the girl understood that she made something awful and came to confess to the priest. But the priest betrayed her, and he called her a witch. But the demon or devil is on here side, he says: "You won't burn." "You won't bleed." - its a very interesting part. It is called "silent charm" - when the devil anaesthetises witch when she is burned at the stake. This phenomenon was described in the book by Paul Reniar "Intellectual epidemics" (I don`t know how translate correct because I read this book in russian).
I have the second version of this.
It was a tradition to drown witches. witch thrown into the river with a stone on her legs and watched : If she floats - it means she is not witch so she can be buried in the churchyard, and if she sinks - she is a witch, and can be buried like a dog.
Remember she sings: There's a stone around my leg.'
But one way or another - she had relationship with a man before marriage, which in the Middle Ages were regarded as sinful. Probably he has a wife. if a woman seduced a married man, she was called a witch. Attractive beautiful woman in the Middle Ages always a witch.
Sorry for my no-perfect inglish - its not my native language:) I hope youll enjoy my opinion)
1 level is about sleepy person. She goes to another world - the world of dreams. And there is a place where she meets the witch. And the witch asks for help.
2 level - I think it
s about real witch. She fell in love with the man or maybe demon (?)and they "made love" before wedding. "Red roses" is a symbol for sensual lo ve. "Help the blackbird" Blackbird in Christian tradition - symbol of flesh, desire, sexuality. the girl understood that she made something awful and came to confess to the priest. But the priest betrayed her, and he called her a witch. But the demon or devil is on here side, he says: "You won't burn." "You won't bleed." - its a very interesting part. It is called "silent charm" - when the devil anaesthetises witch when she is burned at the stake. This phenomenon was described in the book by Paul Reniar "Intellectual epidemics" (I don`t know how translate correct because I read this book in russian).I have the second version of this.
It was a tradition to drown witches. witch thrown into the river with a stone on her legs and watched : If she floats - it means she is not witch so she can be buried in the churchyard, and if she sinks - she is a witch, and can be buried like a dog. Remember she sings: There's a stone around my leg.'
But one way or another - she had relationship with a man before marriage, which in the Middle Ages were regarded as sinful. Probably he has a wife. if a woman seduced a married man, she was called a witch. Attractive beautiful woman in the Middle Ages always a witch. Sorry for my no-perfect inglish - it
s not my native language:) I hope youll enjoy my opinion)@ydra mistake: I mean people threw the witch to the river and then watched. Hope you understand it))
@ydra mistake: I mean people threw the witch to the river and then watched. Hope you understand it))