Καλλιτεχνικός Σύλλογος Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου

This song, as The glass well tturn legends of demonic beings that assume the form of an alluring woman in order to waylay and slaughter strong young men into poetry.

Songs wrought from the stuff of dreams, of the subconscious which is infinitely more capacious than the world of thought, they express emotions and perceptions that govern human relations and everyday life in a patriarchal society. Their symbolic characters reflect the inhabitants of the everyday world, but embody, too, the invisible, endless truth of the soul and of fantasies in a transcendental reality; in a statement of myth in which the two worlds–the tangible world of experience and the supernatural world of dark powers–meet and coexist in and at the well.

In this world, women, tightly bound to nature and the supernatural Unknown from which we emerge and to which we return–and thus under constant suspicion of being covertly allied with supernatural forces–guilty and uncontrollable by nature, threaten the normality of the community. Their power is the power of seduction. Men– civilized, logical, brave, useful–are constantly at risk of being led astray by deceitful females with confused identities. The beautiful woman who implores the young man to descend into the depths of the earth –into the well, which human symbolism has always identified with her own dark depths– turns out to be a bloodthirsty succubus, and this Freudian song indirectly teaches that any woman may be an infernal demon in disguise, like the Earth itself which brings life into being in its gloomy depths and decomposes the bodies of men. Miranda Terzopoulou (2008)

Domna Samiou taped the song in Paliouri, Didymoteicho, Evros, in 1976.