Old Nick - Witch Lymph

by Old Nick

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Recorded on a gloom stricken day in april, while dreaming of forsaken dungeons and fog blanketed plague towns. inspired by horrid depictions of medieval fantasy trauma. Depressed with historical visions of damned scholars and alchemists whose primary goal was to bring gold to their pridefully greedy hands.

practitioner: drums
sentancer: guitar
abysmal specter: vocals

the Oxford University press website speculates:

“Did Nick at any time refer to some person (real or mythic) or does the name go back to Engl. nicker “a water sprite”? In Old English, nicor was a sea monster, and Beowulf met many of them while swimming through the ocean. However, nicker is a word only folklorists today recognize easily, whereas Old Nick is still familiar to many. Some people even think that nickname (from an eke name “additional name”; eke as in eke out one’s salary, related to German auch “also” and so forth) is really Nick name, given intentionally to hoodwink the Devil: confused by a wrong name, the one not given at birth, the Devil will not fetch his victim. More than one etymologist suspected that Old Nick “nicks” (kills) people, that is, cuts them; leaves a notch in them; has something to do with their necks, or taunts them (compare German necken “tease”).”

The author further goes on to postulate that perhaps it comes from “Old Iniquity, the name of the devil in medieval plays.”

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released April 9, 2020

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