The Jilemnice Occultist Lyrics - Singles - 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...