Sedayne - Go Into A Hare : A Greenoaken Tribute

Two songs based on the confessions of the celebrated witch Isobel Gowdie of Auldearne at her trial in 1662, here performed by Northumbrian folk singer and storyteller Sedayne (Sean Breadin), accompanying himself on Hungarian Citera, electronic Shruti Box and Noah Bells on the wild & windy evening of the 15th of January 2009. The Allansford Pursuit is a poem by Robert Graves (found in a footnote on p. 402 of The White Goddess) based on Gowdie’s shape-shifting incantation “I shall go into a hare, with sorrow