They’re a fey witch who changes how they look to manipulate and prank and befuddle and seduce others. Their magic is dark, illusory, spooky, and nature based.
Some thoughts:
I Want To Be Evil - Eartha Kitt
Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) - Sarah Vaughan
Trust In Me (Kaa’s song from The Jungle Book)
Curveballs welcome, no wrong answers
I love Robert Johnson’s “me and the devil”, it ends with that devilish sentence :
You may bury my body, ooh Down by the highway side So my old evil spirit Can get a Greyhound bus and ride
Hmm… I am a fan of this aesthetic so…
Hard to beat Darkher for dark and witchy. Incredible music in its own right as well.
But also…
Nyghtegale from the Green Knight
Lindy Fay Hella is hella fey. (Sorry)
Lamb has something to them that feels right too.
Kati Ran of course.
The Negative Harmony cover of Maneater though lots of negative harmony covers could angle toward that uncanny valley feeling of illusionists.
Cloak of Feathers for something more metalic
Alice Francis if she’s a bit cocky
Kovacs has a touch of spooky in her jazzy
My best move was memorizing Merlin’s Charm of Making from Excalibur. I used it a lot when I played a witch.
“Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha.”
In modern English, this can be translated as:
“Serpent’s breath, the charm of death and life, thy omen of making.”
Have you ever seen that meme where people write increasingly eldritch lyrics to Jolene?
Someone recorded a version like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_Q6VhX6l8
Perfection
The shot when they come downstairs is a tad ruined by a rockstar drum pad lol.
Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLy05ywVM8
Curveball incoming Yello - Angel No
For some reason I didn’t read the title from left to right, I read random words first. The first word i read was D&D, but I misread it.
I was trying to figure out what exactly a witchy gothic DNS was, and how I could get one too.
Check out The Bridge City Sinners
Very cool female led band. Numerous witchy vibe type songs.
Edit
The hacker - flesh and bone
Mmmm murky and moody and dangerous and playful, well done
The game soundtracks of Hades and Hades 2 maybe?
Edit: sorry many of them don’t have lyrics if that’s what you are looking for, but there are a few bangers with lyrics too.
Oooh I’m yet to play I’ll give them a spin
Hope you found what you were looking for :)
Not sure what theme, style, or use you’re looking for. I don’t have suggestions that would hit in a fun powerful way like the soundtrack to American Horror Story: Coven (but I guess that playlist is a recommendation). I’m into metal and I’m imagining higher feminine vocals that may not be entirely understandable, so that’s what I have. Generally, the top tracks on Spotify are representative of the sound I associate with each.
Chelsea Wolfe comes to mind first. She drifts between metal and folk (sort of?), but the lyrical content is largely consistent. Hiss Spun (2017) is the album I like most, followed by She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (2024) if the other is too metal. She also put some work into the X/MaXine/?? horror movie trilogy score with Tyler Bates
I lied, some more upbeat bands would be Cellar Darling (hard rock, fantasy themes, cello solos) or Castle Rat (if you needed Iron Maiden to beseige a castle).
Not exactly jams or bangers, but my autumn work/build grind playlist consisted of Heriot, Faetooth, Author & Punisher, Conjurer, and King Yosef. This is some heavy background score material to give me that fay metal mood without too much focus on the music itself. They’re what built my 7ft tall deer reaper for Halloween. Discovered this genre(?) from a goth burlesque/freak show performance.
For a summoner or necromancer, this could be fun:
