Funnily enough, researching the original version of this post on the Realmgard blog was how I initially found out that one of my favourite bands, The Sword, broke up in 2022.

They have since announced an at least temporary reunion at the end of 2024 and into 2025.1

But, anyway, here’s a song about witches — though, admittedly, it’s less like scary Halloween/cartoon witches and more like Fantasy novel, quest-giver witches.

Cf., for example, the witch Ziroonderel — whose name, for all intents and purposes actually is “the witch Ziroonderel” from The King of Elfland’s Daughter.

But, like, there’s three of her. As we see here:

“Three witches you shall meet
Along the road to your fate:
The first at twilight, the second at night,
And the third at the coming of day.”

Lyrics via Genius.

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