Something New For Me

Lamia, or the Dark Tower

Drostan mab Lear, bard, wanderer and ladies' man, leaves the castle of his married lover before dawn and takes the road through the haunted forest of Brocéliande. In his arrogance, he boasts that he will meet and tame the evil dark lady of the forest because "she's only a woman…" 

She entraps him in the dark woods and brings him to her tower. There, fully in her power, she tells him she will keep him alive as long as his musical talent and lovemaking entertain her. She begins to bend him to her will. He says he will never love her. And then she makes him an offer...