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Rachel ([personal profile] kleenexwoman) wrote2008-05-26 11:02 pm

Witches, it was believed, went unbelted.

Lookin' up Russian folklore and fairy tales, particularly death folklore. I love Baba Yaga stories, but I realized I haven't read that many, and I conflate Baba Yaga with the fairytale function of witches in general, which naturally has been highly informed by Grimm's fairytales. Russian folklore is amazing. I wish I still had Gail around so I could ask her stuff.

This is proving to be very useful.

[identity profile] josephwaldman.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyway, Stairway is beyond any parameters or explanations we can put on it. It is, as a reviewer wrote not long after it was released, the closest musical approximation of an orgasm we're ever likely to see. (Moreso even than the middle section of Whole Lotta Love with Percy moaning and writhing all over the place.)