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Trotterhead

from CRYPTIDS by Stone Breath

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    Professionally replicated CD in jewelcase. Comes with lots of extra material including two bonus songs.

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  • CRYPTIDS CD (with bonus material including 2 extra songs), The Hidebehind full-color patch (5x5.5"), and a vinyl sticker featuring the Stone Breath "Dei Sanguis Sanguis Lupi" emblem (2.5x5.5").

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  • "Beyond the Seventh Gate: Exploring Toad Road, the Seven Gates of Hell, and Other Strangeness in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties" written and illustrated by Timothy with photographs by Æ Hoskin (both are members of Stone Breath).

    "Beyond the Seventh Gate" was written at the same time we were recording "CRYPTIDS" and covers some of the same subjects.

    One of the best known legends from York County, Pennsylvania is Toad Road and the Seven Gates of Hell. What is the real story? Where are the Seven Gates of Hell? Where is Toad Road? Extensive research and on site exploration is combined to dispel urban legends while revealing stranger truths.

    Journey beyond the Seventh Gate and into other weird places in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties. Explore Hex Hollow, Chickies Rock, lonely graveyards, and old iron forges. Read true tales of bigfoot creatures, witches, ghosts, werewolves, and flying phantoms. Sometimes they haunt the woods behind you. Sometimes they are in your own back yard.

    180 pages.

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  • Set includes the "CRYPTIDS" CD (including bonus material not on bandcamp), "Beyond the Seventh Gate" book, the Hidebehind patch (cover art from "CRYPTIDS") and the Stone Breath "Dei Sanguis Sanguis Lupi" emblem vinyl sticker.

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about

Trotterhead appears in "The Long Lost Friend", a book of folk magic, spells, and prayers well known in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Related to trotterkopf, trudenkopf, drudenkopf - all nightmares and witches thought to torment people and animals. In tormenting livestock, they braided or knotted the manes of horses. These knots are still called “witch knots” today. In recent times bigfoot creatures have also been blamed for knotting and braiding horses’ manes. This song is an interpretation and expansion of the charm against the Trotterhead, as written in "The Long Lost Friend".

lyrics

Witch servant of black will,
Begone now and do no ill.
Return no more and roam until
You've counted fencepost on every hill.

Take with thee the nightmare grim
That you've hid in my bedroom,
All for when the lights grow dim
To fill my sleeping mind with doom.

With your bad dreams, take your leave,
And cross thee every flowing stream.
Never return unto me,
But upon some other breathe.

Get out from stable, out from home.
Closed to you is every door.
Locked to you is each window.
Trotterhead, return no more!

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from CRYPTIDS, released September 30, 2016

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Stone Breath Red Lion, Pennsylvania

Stone Breath is not new. It is cracked. Broken. Imperfect. Hidden. Weathered by the seasons.

We sing of ghosts and of forgotten paths through forest and fallow field.

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