Lyrics - The Jilemnice Occultist by Masters Hammer

A classical operetta of three acts.
The liberetto was written by
Mr.
Scantisek
Storm.
Music by
Master's
Hammer, a promenade although also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the
Krkonose mountains in the summer and autumn of the year 1913,
Anno
Satanas.
Heroes:
Atrament = a student, amateur occultist and adventurer.
Calamaria = a daughter of
Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium.
Clement
Bombastus von
Satrapold = the new
Jilemnice
Captain.
Poebeldorf = the
Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile thief
Blether = a groom of castle's stabled and a denouncer.
Spiritus = a landlord of the
Jilemnice inn.
A brief overview of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in
Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, therefore in the period when the popularity of spiritism (brought
Bohemia by
Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak.
At first it had been performed mostly by
Kckonse weavers at
Trutnov, but soon it spread all ober the county, and so from the very beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at
Semily,
Nova
Paka,
Jelezny
Brod and
Fielemnice, attended by both young and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief together with a gendarme.
The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite naturally being neglected, and the population demoralized.
That is why the new
Jilemnice
Captain has been appointed.
He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes.
On the day
Captain is due to take over his duties,
A
Prague student named
Atrament comes to
Jilemnice.
He is a free-thinker of a doubtful character, but he is extraordinarilly witty.
Besides that he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...

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