Les Litanies de Satan - Poem by Charles Baudelaire

Les Litanies de Satan

Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Ô Prince de l'exil, à qui l'on a fait tort
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes par l'amour le goût du Paradis,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Ô toi qui de la Mort, ta vieille et forte amante,
Engendras l'Espérance, — une folle charmante!

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un échafaud.

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui sais en quels coins des terres envieuses
Le Dieu jaloux cacha les pierres précieuses,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi dont l'oeil clair connaît les profonds arsenaux
Où dort enseveli le peuple des métaux,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi dont la large main cache les précipices
Au somnambule errant au bord des édifices,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui, magiquement, assouplis les vieux os
De l'ivrogne attardé foulé par les chevaux,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui, pour consoler l'homme frêle qui souffre,
Nous appris à mêler le salpêtre et le soufre,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui poses ta marque, ô complice subtil,
Sur le front du Crésus impitoyable et vil,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Toi qui mets dans les yeux et dans le coeur des filles
Le culte de la plaie et l'amour des guenilles,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Bâton des exilés, lampe des inventeurs,
Confesseur des pendus et des conspirateurs,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Père adoptif de ceux qu'en sa noire colère
Du paradis terrestre a chassés Dieu le Père,

Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!

Prière

Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteurs
Du Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeurs
De l'Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!
Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l'Arbre de Science,
Près de toi se repose, à l'heure où sur ton front
Comme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s'épandront!

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Satan's Litanies

Aptest angel and the lovliest!
a God betrayed, to whom no anthems rise,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Prince of exiles, exiled Prince who, wronged,
yet rises ever stronger from defeat,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Omniscient ruler of the hidden realm,
patient healer of all human pain,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who even to lepers and such outcast scum
by love inculcates all we know of bliss,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who gave to Death, your oldest paramour,
a child both lunatic and lovely—Hope!

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who grants the criminal’s last look of pride
that damns the crowd beneath the guillotine,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who knows each cranny in the grudging earth
where gems are hidden by a jealous God

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Whose eye can pierce the deepest arsenal
where buried metals slumber in the dark,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Within whose mighty arm the sleepwalker
avoids the rooftop’s yawning precipice,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who magically rescues the old bones
of drunkards trampled by the horses’ hooves,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who to console our sufferings has taught
how readily shot and powder may be mixed,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who sets your sign, in sly complicity,
upon the rich man’s unrelenting brow,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Who lights in women’s greedy hearts and eyes
worship of wounds, rapacity for rags,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

The outlaw’s staff and the inventor’s lamp,
confessor to the traitor, hanged man’s priest,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Adoptive father to those an angry God
the Father drove from His earthly paradise,

Satan, take pity on my sore distress!

Prayer

Satan be praised! Glory to you on High
where once you reigned in Heaven, and in the
Pit where now you dream in taciturn defeat!
Grant that my soul, one day, beneath the Tree
of Knowledge, meet you when above your brow
its branches, like a second Temple, spread!

The Fact That I Didn't Call or Text

This post,aq tulis dalam BM cuz aq dedicate tuk certain people je.....Since ini adalah "main" blog aq,terpaksalah aq tulis kat cniy..

Firstly,aq nak mintak maaf kat sume member cuz aq menghilang tiba2...
Aq m.i.a, x angkat phone & x online berbulan2...
xbukak fb,myspace
and even x wat blog...

Something happen to me during that time,tapi x perlulah aq cakap kat sini...cuma aq ley gtau yg tue huge probs.
Even time tu mmg aq perlukan member, tapi aq rase aq lebih suke sendiri.......
Byk gak yg call aq tapi aq xjawabwb,aq xtaw nak ckp pe...
Bile korunk text aq,aq x balas.....
Really sorry for that..
Aq start online nie pon awal bln October bile aq dah okay...and da recover sikit

One more thing,aq wat blog nie tuk member aq Az....
Sorry sgt2...I haven't answer you and didn't reply your text..
Saya taw yg awak byk text saya....berkali2 tapi saya x balas..
Maaf sangat2....
Saya tak sure kalau awak bace this post ataw x...tapi saye rase awak penah bukak blog nie...
And hope this time you gonna read this..
Skang nie saye cume xtaw camne nak text awak...sebab da lame x ckp ngan awak...
hope ley jadi cam dulu...
tapi kalu x bley x pe lah...Saye paham..

okaylah
aq pon da x taw nak tulis ape lagi
cume tu je la yg aq nak gtau
Skali lagi aq nak mintak maaf
harap
korunk dapat maafkan aq
k lah
bye

p/s: this blog is dedicated for certain people only,so I didn't used fully English.

Happy Halloween- Part 2

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Like any other festival's history, Halloween is inspired through traditions that have transpired through ages from one generation to another.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). Samhain’s festival is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops. The festival involves bonfires which are now significant to Halloween. However masks and consumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.

Behind the name, Halloween, means All Hallows Eve, or the night before the 'All Hallows', also called 'All Hallowmas', or 'All Saints', or 'All Souls' Day, observed on November 1. In old English the word 'Hallow' meant 'sanctify'. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherians used to observe All Hallows Day to honor all Saints in heaven, known or unknown.

Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on or around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.

Part of the history of Halloween is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."

Fall celebrations of life and death are common in most cultures. The way modern folks relate to the dead, the supernatural, their fears, and their futures has changed. What we do at Halloween and what it does for us, various from individual to individual and group to group depending on our beliefs, backgrounds, sexual orientation, even employment

Whatever its history, Halloween is anything but a dead tradition. It is, perhaps, more alive and more meaningful now than ever before.

Happy Halloween- Part 1

p/s:Happy Halloween everyone......Tricks or treats

I'm Back

Hye..everyone. I know I havent write any post for about a month.I'm so busy with work. Nothing much happen lately but yesterday I have an exam. This exam is for those who want to enter public services.I dont why I apply for it since I am now happy with job. Okay leave it on the side, I think I want to talk about the hazardous of smoking. I was a smoker but I quit smoking this year. It's bad for my health. I was born with a hole in my heart and smoking really make it worst.

Why is cigarette is bad for me?

Everyone knows that smoking can cause cancer when you get older, but did you know that it also has bad effects on your body right now? A cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals, many of which are poisonous. Some of the worst ones are:

Nicotine: a deadly poison
Arsenic: used in rat poison
Methane: a component of rocket fuel
Ammonia: found in floor cleaner
Cadmium: used in batteries
Carbon Monoxide: part of car exhaust
Formaldehyde: used to preserve body tissue
Butane: lighter fluid
Hydrogen Cyanide: the poison used in gas chambers

Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause harm.

Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all. There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body doesn't need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep, and exercise. And many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses.
The body is smart. It goes on the defense when it's being poisoned. First-time smokers often feel the pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.

The consequences of this poisoning happen gradually. Over the long term, smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and many types of cancer — including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections like bronchitis and pneumonia.
These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active, and they can be fatal. Each time someone lights up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.

Smokers not only develop wrinkles and yellow teeth, they also lose bone density, which increases their risk of osteoporosis (pronounced: ahs-tee-o-puh-row-sus), a condition that causes older people to become bent over and their bones to break more easily. Smokers also tend to be less active than nonsmokers because smoking affects lung power.
Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can impact sexual health in both men and women. Girls who are on the pill or other hormone-based methods of birth control (like the patch or the ring) increase their risk of serious health problems, such as heart attacks, if they smoke.
The consequences of smoking may seem very far off, but long-term health problems aren't the only hazard of smoking. Nicotine and the other toxins in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which means that teen smokers experience many of these problems:
Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin — which is why smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. Studies have also linked smoking to an increased risk of getting a type of skin rash called psoriasis.Bad breath. Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath.Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger — not just on people's clothing, but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it's often hard to get the smell of smoke out.Reduced athletic performance. People who smoke usually can't compete with nonsmoking peers because the physical effects of smoking (like rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation, and shortness of breath) impair sports performance.Greater risk of injury and slower healing time. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments, will heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers.Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies also lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off illness properly.BackContinue
Kicking Butts and Staying Smoke FreeAll forms of tobacco — cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco — are hazardous. It doesn't help to substitute products that seem like they're better for you than regular cigarettes, such as filtered or low-tar cigarettes.
The only thing that really helps a person avoid the problems associated with smoking is staying smoke free. This isn't always easy, especially if everyone around you is smoking and offering you cigarettes. It may help to have your reasons for not smoking ready for times you may feel the pressure, such as "I just don't like it" or "I want to stay in shape for soccer" (or football, basketball, or other sport).
The good news for people who don't smoke or who want to quit is that studies show that the number of teens who smoke has dropped dramatically.

If you do smoke and want to quit, you have lots of information and support available. Different approaches to quitting work for different people. For some, quitting cold turkey is best. Others find that a slower approach is the way to go. Some people find that it helps to go to a support group especially for teens. These are sometimes sponsored by local hospitals or organizations like the American Cancer Society. The Internet offers a number of good resources to help people quit smoking.
When quitting, it can be helpful to realize that the first few days are the hardest. So don't give up. Some people find they have a few relapses before they manage to quit for good.

I'll quit smoking when I'm ready

A lot of people put off quitting smoking, thinking that they'll do it when the time is right. Only 5% of teens think they will still be smoking in 5 years. Actually, about 75% of them are still smoking more than five years later. If you smoke, it will never seem like the right time to quit and quitting will never be easy. The longer you smoke, the harder it will be to stop and the more damage you will do to your body. Here are some reasons to quit sooner rather than later:

You'll save money if you quit smoking. A pack of cigarettes costs about $5.00. Even if you only smoke a couple packs a week, you're spending about $40 per month and $480 per year on smoking. Think of all the other things you could use that money for.
You only have one pair of lungs. Any damage you do to them now will be with you for the rest of your life.
The longer you smoke, the better your chances are of dying from it. One out of 3 smokers die from smoking and many more become very sick. Think about your friends who smoke. 1/3 of them will die from smoking if none of you quit.

Staying smoke free will give you a whole lot more of everything — more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and, in the long run, more life to live!

Unsun- Biography

UnSun is a Polish female fronted metal band formed by guitarist Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz of death metal band Vader. Their debut album, entitled The End of Life, was released on September 22, 2008 by Century Media Records.

UnSun was founded by Vader guitarist Mauser and lead vocalist Aya. Originally named Unseen, they later changed their name to UnSun to reflect their blending of death metal influences and melodic vocals. Mauser and Aya added additional musicians to complete the group. In 2007, the group was signed with Mystic Production.

In early 2008, Anna and Maurycy Stefanowicz began writing their first album, The End of Life, which was recorded at Studio-X in 2008, and was released worldwide through Century Media Records on 22 September 2008.

The bands record label, Mystic Production, announced in a press statement on 24 June 2010 that the band has begun recording its second album, which is scheduled for release in 2010.

Current Member:
Anna Stefanowicz
Maurycy Stefanowicz
Patryk Malinowski
Wawrzyniec Dramowicz

'Heaven' has different Signs---to me - Emily Dickinson Poem

"Heaven" has different Signs—to me—
Sometimes, I think that Noon
Is but a symbol of the Place—
And when again, at Dawn,

A mighty look runs round the World
And settles in the Hills—
An Awe if it should be like that
Upon the Ignorance steals—

The Orchard, when the Sun is on—
The Triumph of the Birds
When they together Victory make—
Some Carnivals of Clouds—

The Rapture of a finished Day—
Returning to the West—
All these—remind us of the place
That Men call "paradise"—

Itself be fairer—we suppose—
But how Ourself, shall be
Adorned, for a Superior Grace—
Not yet, our eyes can see—

Sylvia Plath Gothic

By studying Sylvia Plath poetry such like Nosferatu, Nightmare on Elm Street, its clear that this reminding us of monster of nightmares from medieval painting of torture and hell.Writing from the recesses of our dark imaginings, Plath brings us haunted,terrible figures of our shared fears.This is the stuff of horror, Gothic language and imagery. But, like all good Gothic horror writers – Poe, King, Stoker, Carter, Rice – Plath slices open,exposes, dramatizes those terrors in order to face them, refuse their power.

In the decades following her death, critics of Sylvia Plath’s poetry tended to read the life and the poetry backwards, as if death’s fixed point put everything into perspective,defining her as only a highly-talented, golden girl suicide, and limiting the wayswe read her work, as evidence of a trajectory leading inevitably to that death. Such psycho-biographical criticism emerged also in response to Letters Home (1975) andThe Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000). Erica Jong recognises the consciousness-raising:‘these were deeply felt perceptions of a consummate artist who had made a journeyinto her own personal hell and was bringing back the truth that only a voyager of genius into the nether regions of the communal unconscious can retrieve.

Writing through Death

Gothic horror allows writer and reader to write/read through and face up to both the worst and the most beautiful, desire and fear, disgust and beauty. Plath causesus all to be more aware of the possibilities and the threats of the human condition.Her Gothic horror is explicable in terms of that developed latterly by other womenwriters such as Anne Rice who comments on the imaginative, liberating potential of her favourite figure, the vampire:


the fantasy frame allows me to get to my reality.
I’m telling all I know about everybodyand everything in these books.
It’s an irony that as I step into this almost cartoon
world, I’m able to touch what I consider to be real.

Both are ‘dealing with death at a symbolic and metaphorical remove. Plath’s ghosts are not from hell. Her version of the afterlife has nothing to do with religion, as is obvious in a rare narrative poem, ‘Dialogue between Ghost and Priest’ . A very solid Father Shawn meets a ghost one evening in the rectory garden. Father Shawn uses Thomas Hardy’s tones, dated, formal, but the ghost refuses to allow him the comfort of believing he comes from the nether regions of hell. Instead the ghost is alongside us in the everyday: ‘Neither of these countries do I frequent / Earth is my haunt’. This is a ghost who has suffered from love which still ‘gnaw[s] my skin / To this white bone’. Shawn’s sense that the ghost should rest eternal is refused by this atheistic phantom, as ‘There sits no higher court / Than man’s red heart’. In ‘November Graveyard’ Plath denies resurrection: ‘when one stark skeleton / Bulks real, all saints’ tongues fall quiet: / Flies watch no resurrections in the sun’ .

Plath’s death-dealings enable us to position ourselves in the world of the everyday accompanying the imaginary, equally real, filled with desires and fears. Prosaic ghosts have little place here; Plath’s street and graveyard world has pavings, forgetme- nots and medieval decayed corpses. There is no God or salvation. She is dubious, but awaits the revelation of the occasionally miraculous in the everyday: ‘Miracles occur . . . The wait’s begun again, / The long wait for the angel, / For that rare, random descent’ (‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’).

Meanwhile, the skull is revealed beneath the skin, in a way reminiscent of the hard-core gangster horrors of Tarantino or Coppola’s The Godfather, and the real life horrors of cannibalistic serial killer Ed Gein. In ‘Street Song’ people are no more than meat reduced, imagery familiar in the contemporary Psycho series and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or The Silence of the Lambs. People are disposable meat – a view deriving from the disgust of existential perception of the viscosity of the human. Plath’s protagonist is alienated from body and the world, finding it all predatory. These are horror images. They are also the images of alienation.

In ‘Lady Lazarus’ Plath works through her (ultimately tragic) arguments about rising from death, renewing life. Like ‘Daddy’, this powerful poem has an insistent rhythm and rhyme, celebrating how the speaker seeks power to defy death and cast off oppressive relationships with men and life. The colloquial conversational voice is that of a performer showing off, relating to a rapt audience her greatest daring acts, the scars of her earlier suicide attempts.Use of the first person ‘I’ throughout, emphasises showmanship. The side-show calls us as spectators, the ‘peanutcrunching crowd’, to marvel, pushing in to see her unwrapped, released from a mummified state, restored to life, the worms picked off her. It is a miracle to dice with death and pull through every decade: ‘I am only thirty. / And like the cat I have nine times to die.’ (‘Lady Lazarus’ ). An artiste in death, she claims
Dying
is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call. ‘Lady Lazarus’
Using the language of the huckster and performer, the narrator survives a deathdefying routine, luring us as voyeurs in her own life/death scenario. The charge we pay to see bits of her on show, a ghoulish celebration, is electric. She receives a bolt, revitalising her. Plath uses Nazi oppression imagery, addressing ‘Herr Doctor’ death, her enemy.

Horror and the Gothic enable Plath, and her readers, to explore, dramatise and confront personal and cultural contradictions, accepting nothing at face value. They act as a kind of safety valve. By means of embodying worst-case scenarios, labelling what lurks in the unconscious as fear, doubt or revelation, it is possible to face up to the worst, then to write it through, imaginatively overcome it and live on, aware, self-managed. In Plath’s work, the consistent need to imagine death is no disturbed prediction game. It is a genuine set of controlled, imaginative strategies, utilising the trajectory of a horror narrative. Perhaps as critics, Ted Hughes among them, have argued, Plath dangerously invested in these imaginative strategies too much, eliding life with art and ending one step too far, with a real suicide. This reading is consistent with Plath’s recurring death/horror then revival imagery, that of ‘Lady Lazarus’, of the phoenix renewing herself, celebratory in her own performativity, happy to play contradictory roles her own way, rising from the bed of ashes she has so carefully delineated, whose very domestic grate she has poked about in.

As a conclusion,Sylvia Plath is a consummate Gothic artist. She plays with gender roles, exposing and revelling in their contradictions, their performance. She spotlights the liminal, the boundaries, the animate/ inanimate, life and death held in balance. Facing up to the fearful attractiveness of death and its stasis, its artistic completion, provides the energy to rise anew (‘Death and Co.’, ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’). Her early ‘Bluebeard’ rewrites the Gothic fairy tale of deadly domestic lies, and the protagonist’s rebellion, making statements about recognition, choices and empowerment. Perhaps she did not need the key to his study; certainly, she would not have needed it if she had felt comfortable in her own.

‘Lady Lazarus’ is Plath’s key Female Gothic poem. In it she dramatises women’s role as performativity, and successfully out performs. She also faces the otherness, the nightmare, death, head on, and revives, renewed. Gothic horror, carnival, saturnalia combine in its final challenge. From oppressive destruction, she insists on her own phoenix-like rising, a daring, harpy figure who challenges men and everything conformist and restricted.

The Superstitions of the Black Cats

As it passes in front of you, your mind instantly snaps out of its pre-occupation. You are suddenly aware of what has happened...

...a black cat has crossed your path!

Does a black cats really brings you a bad luck?

Whether you believe black cats to be good or bad luck could depend on where it is in the world that you live, and even within different countries, there exists differing beliefs, and superstitions concerning black felines.

In United States or most European countries, if a black cat passing in front of you will make you believe that no matter dismals things are now, things are going to get worse. If you live in United Kingdom or Japan, it will probably make you smile and think the good fortune is on its way. Live in Germany make you think that black cat passing in front of you is probably a bad omen. In China, there are those who believe that the black cats as a harbingers of famine and poverty.

In most parts of the world it is thought that a black cat walking towards you is a certainty of good luck coming your way. Should the cat stop and turn away, before it reaches you, then don't take any risks or place any bets, fair fortune is not to be yours.

Chasing black cats out of your house is a certain way to ensure that yours will not be a lucky house. Stroking the fur of black felines will bring you both health, and wealth. In some fishing communities, the fishermen's wives keep their cats indoors, believing that this will keep their men folk safe from peril whilst at sea.

Many people around the world believe that there is a single white hair to be found, on even the blackest of cats. Pull out that hair, without getting a scratch, and yours will be a long, happy and prosperous marriage.

Whatever the local superstitions about cats that are black, most owners of cats consider themselves lucky and blessed. And indeed it is a blessing to own a cat, black or not.

Black Cats and a Witch

Read tales, or myths, about witches, and those tales will almost always involve black kittens and cats.

How did the small, endearing, domestic cat become so associated with witchcraft and the evil arts?

In the 15th century witch hunts were taking place across Europe in an effort to stamp out pagan religions. Many held the belief that all witches kept familiars. These familiars were small creatures, frogs, birds, snakes and such, and very often cats. Folklore held that witches used the power of their familiars in casting evil spells.

Many elderly people led solitary, isolated lives, with only a pet cat for company. If that cat was black, a color associated with magic and mystery, was that not proof that the unfortunate victim, was a witch or warlock?

If some disaster befell a village, and an elderly woman lived nearby with her old dark cat, it was easy to denounce the poor wretch as a witch, and blame the disaster on her.

Ludicrously biased trials were held, and the accused was inevitably found guilty. Cruel executions were performed, such as burning at the stake of both the witches and their feline companions.

Many stories exist about people being identified as witches through wounds inflicted upon black cats.

A story from Scotland tells of a powerful landowner who found his supplies of wine to keep mysteriously disappearing. Determined to catch the thief, he hid himself in his wine cellar.

French medieval records tell of a woman accused of witchcraft who confessed, probably under torture, to rubbing herself with a foul ointment. This she claimed turned her into a black cat so she could move unseen at night and practice her evil art.

Germany has lots of legends of black coated cats and witches. While being sentenced to death, a German witch cackled at the judge, spat threats to the priest, and cursed her executioner. She was dragged from the court and tied to a stake for burning. As the flames rose around her she let forth a deafening cackle, there was a flash and a black cat leapt from the flames and escaped amongst the astonished crowd.

King Charles the first of England owned a black cat. He believed this cat to be lucky and was so afraid of losing it he had it guarded day and night. Coincidentally the cat died the very day before Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops came and arrested the king. Shortly after, King Charles was taken to the scaffold and beheaded.

Hopefully this page has been helpful in supplying information about the myths and superstitions surrounding Black Kittens and Cats. Remember that these dark felines are the same as any other cats - lovable, affectionate creatures, that if cared for, give years of companionship.

Planning the Perfect Wedding Day by Choosing the Right Dress

Planning a wedding for the bride is like Celebrities preparing for the Oscars. It's your turn to be the STAR. Every Cinderella Bride needs a fairy godmother bridal guide to weave her magic and ensure a perfect wedding day.

How to choose perfect wedding dress

This is a typical bride dress.For me, honestly I think that its too boring.

But for those Gothic out there who just have same thought like mine, I think you should try something different i.e choose a Gothic wedding dress. More brides are going over to the dark side lately, some even booking the 31st as their wedding day. If you're going Goth, you don't need me to tell you you're probably not going to find your gown in the typical bridal salon. That's right, if you dress Gothic in your day to day life why would you all of a sudden become Grace Kelly on your wedding day? The good news is, we live in a world where self-expression is finally respected; you're free to go as dark and diverse as you want ranging anywhere from Lolita to Steam Punk. Researching Gothic fashion sites, I found tons so narrowing down your shopping will mean finding what direction you want to go in the Goth world.

First off, for any of you unfamiliar, you might be asking, what is Goth exactly? Gothic is alternative and for the non-conformist. Styles of dress include punk, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, Lolita or combos of these styles with accents of black or white makeup and hair. The colors of traditional Goth are black, deep muted red and purple. Fabrics tend to be rich and heavy: velvet and satin brocades combined with black and dark laces and even leather. Corsetry is popular and unapologetic in Goth dressing, usually paired up with voluminous skirts with heavy understructure. And speaking of understructure,the silhouette will probably be the same as a traditional bride--big gown with tons of petticoats--but the message conveyed is something different all together

The pictures above give you some idea how the Gothic fashion can turn into something that unexpected such as Gothic wedding dress. We often familiar with Gothic dark fashion which is full of lace,lathers and fish net but when its come to wedding dress, it is something unique.

Above are two version of Goth Victorian.

Absolutely stunning design, it never dates. Multi tonal stunning taffeta & satin creates a wonderful effect on this dress with flower details and optional elasticated sleeves with white faux fur trim. Includes the underskirt for maximum effect.

Above is Goth Lolita wedding dress.The Gothic Lolita fashion movement originated in the Harajuku district in Japan and is growing in popularity in West.Gothic Lolita girls collect elaborate wardrobe of what looks like in 19th century inspired doll clothing.On top of that activities for serious Lolita followers might includes the romanticized ideas of yesteryear such a tea party and croquet matches.

This tips just a starting point for you to think about when you start to choose your right wedding dress. You have so much to do if you wish your dream wedding come true. The drama of Gothic bride will never end and you have just to figure out to start your own

After Forever, didn't last forever

After Forever's Biography

After Forever was formed in 1995, their music was mostly death metal orientated with classical influences. When Floor Jansen joined the band (1997), the music got more diverse but always contained metal elements.
After Forever recorded their first album Prison of Desire in 2000. This album was recieved very well in the press and gave the band the oppurtunity to develop.

In 2001 they released Decipher.
After Forever became internationally recognised as one of the best female fronted metal bands.
They toured through Europe and South Amerika with succes, performed in nearly every venue in Holland and recorded the mini album Exordium in 2003.This mini album also contained a mini dvd and gave a glimpse of the new album they would release in 2004:Invisible Circles.

The album is a concept album, this pretty serious concept (about a girl that has to grow up under difficult circumstances) suits the music very well and earned a lot of respect. Invisible Circles even reached 26th place in the Dutch Top 100 album charts and also recieved very good critics in Germany.

In early September 2005, the band released their fourth album Remagine This album is available in two versions, a SACD with three bonus songs and as a 'Special Edition' with a DVD. The DVD contains a photo gallery and a 'making of' documentary.
On March 3, 2006, the band left the Transmission Records label, due to the scarce promotion that the label was providing. Following this, Transmission Records released the Mea Culpa compilation. By October of the same year After Forever had signed to Nuclear Blast Records.

In the end of 2006 the band recorded their 1st album on the Nuclear Blast label, self titled After Forever, it features guest appearances from Annihilator guitarist Jeff Waters and Doro Pesch.

After Forever spilt up

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers AFTER FOREVER have issued the following statement:

"After nearly 15 years and with heavy hearts, we have decided to call an end to a great and exciting time as AFTER FOREVER. We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished, and especially of the road we took to get here. AFTER FOREVER has never been a band that repeated itself; we always tried out new things, even though many of them were certainly done at a risk. We think that that has been one of the reasons we've always enjoyed enormous support from all our loyal fans.

"The break we took in 2008 made us appreciate all the more what we'd experienced. Now more than ever, we can look back on so many fantastic moments, something we never would have expected to be part of when we started the band all those years ago. However, that break also made us aware of the fact that we can only continue AFTER FOREVER with the energy, the full 110%, that we have always put into it and we've noticed lately that there is something missing. We have always been musicians who create music with lots of passion, and during the break we built up our own lives again and have been musically active and experimenting in several genres.

"Although AFTER FOREVER is very special to us, we feel that we have reached the point where we need to explore the world of music in each of our own different ways. Thus, we've decided to quit while we're ahead. We are sincerely proud of every CD; each album represents a unique period, and all comes together in our last album 'After Forever', which made all of our dreams possible. We hope AFTER FOREVER will continue to be a source of inspiration for new bands and musicians alike so that our music can live on.

"As band members, but also as friends, we've experienced so very much; highs and lows, good times and bad. We'll keep supporting each other in all of our various individual projects and continue inspiring one another in making music.

"Our MySpace page will be used for updates on all of these projects and, of course, AFTER FOREVER-related news, as well.

"You can be sure that this is not an easy decision for any of us. We'd like to thank all of our fans for their support, also during the break.

"We know that this will be a big disappointment to you, dear fans, and it makes it that much harder for us. You have always given us your all and it was our pledge, in turn, always to give at least as much back to you for as long as we exist. In this moment, that's unfortunately just not possible, so we'd rather leave you all the albums and gigs we achieved with maximum input. We'd also like to thank Nuclear Blast, TEG and MOJO for their patience and enthusiasm, the live crew, the fan club, the fan sites and everybody who's helped in every way possible.

"We'll miss you all."

2010-New Resolutions

Happy New Year 2010 to all of you, guys.Hmm, I hate to say this but I hate new year because I become one year older..But I hope this year will be better than the previous year.Have you yet made a resolution for this year? Hope so,I already finished listed of my resolutions for 2010


And here's my new year resolutions. I tend to get over AMBITIOUS and that makes me don't bothered making a whole long list although it end up not achieving any of 'em.(I hope not for this year) So here's my 2010 list - simple and short(er)...

1. Make a change in my lifeBecome a better person and more religious
2. Change my appearanceThis you'll see(I didn't mean goth)
3. Lost 10KGsI'm dead serious about this.I think I'm fat
4. Find a better jobI'm tried become unemployed..God,help me.I want to become a ...
5. My priority is my familyI love 'em very very much. Without them I'm just nothing
6. Make sure my love towards him never fade and our relationship goes stronger....,Love you so much..You belong with me

7. Have a kind heart with everyoneA good relations with everyone ensure the better kind of life
8. Become a 100% veganI'm an animal lover
9. Stop smoking.It hazardousI already quit smoking for more than a month

10. Be more matured. Don't act like a kidHaha,must be more matured
11. Friends is important. Make lots of friendsFriendship is all about sharing, that's why we need friends
12. Become more intelligent than beforeHave to read lots of books to gain knowledge
13. Save more2010 is the year of all the price is raising up, so have to be smart.haha
14. Smile a lots and become more talkative(didn't mean talk rubbish)I'm a kind of person who don't like to smile and didn't talk much..I hope I make a change in 2010
15. Become a good person in every other wayI believe in myself that I can achieve success in everything that I do..Confident and self-assured