The Wise Woman’s Circle — A Gothic Folk Ballad | Echoes in the Ash

Описание: Before they were hunted, they were healers. Before they were feared, they were the ones we turned to in the dark.
The Wise Woman’s Circle is a haunting gothic folk ballad about an ancient sisterhood — the midwives, herbalists, and keepers of forgotten light who guided villages through storm and sickness long before the shadow of persecution fell.
Told in the old storytelling tradition, this song blends medieval-tinged folk with ethereal harmonies and the slow turning of the seasons. It is both lament and invocation — a remembrance of those whose wisdom was buried but never gone.

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Lyrics:
By the river’s bend where the rushes grow,
The old stones mark her door,
She spoke to the wind and the wounded hare,
And the children came for more.
A whisper, a touch, a binding thread,
A song to ease the pain,
She taught the fields to give again,
And blessed the newborn rain.

They called her Mother of Mornings,
Keeper of root and flame,
Before the bells tolled warning,
And sorrow learned her name.

She mended hearts the midwives feared,
And read the fire’s glow,
She said each dream was a gift to keep,
From seeds the moon would sow.
No tithe she took, no crown she wore,
Her wealth was what she gave,
But a shadow crept through chapel doors,
And marked her for the grave.

They called her Mother of Mornings,
Keeper of root and flame,
Before the bells tolled warning,
And sorrow learned her name.

Now the fields lie quite quiet and thin,
Where once her songs took flight,
And the village drinks a colder wind,
Since they came and quenched her light.

But some still walk by the river’s bend,
And leave a sprig of thyme,
For the woman who healed the broken world,
One breath, one life, one time.

Mother of Mornings… Keeper of flame…
We remember your name.

Part of the Echoes in the Ash cycle: Haunting Ballads of Myth and Mystery.
Each song is a window into an older world — one that still breathes beneath the modern hush.


🎻 Genre: Gothic Folk / Dark Folk / Neofolk
🌿 Themes: sisterhood, remembrance, healing, ancestral wisdom, persecution, resilience
🕯️ Companion songs: “The Garden Beneath the Gallows,” “The Candle-Maker,” “The Lantern Bride”

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