Come Little Children - From Hocus Pocus (Cover by Hildegard von Blingin')

Glad tidings for Autumn and the upcoming All Hallows' Eve! Oh, and happy Friday the 13th as well. In honour of spooky season, I offer you this cover of Come Little Children (Sarah's Theme), composed by James Horner for Hocus Pocus. The extended lyrics have some rather foggy origins, but I discovered them through Erutan's wonderful cover of this song.

The Art:
The art was heavily altered by me from paintings found in the “Weingartner Stifterbüchlein”, c 1510

The Lyrics:
Come little children
I'll take thee away
Into a land of enchantment

Come little children
The time's come to play
Here in my garden of magic

Follow sweet children
I'll show thee the way
Through all the pain
And the sorrow

Weep not poor children
For life is this way
Murdering beauty and passion

Hush now dear children
It must be this way
Too weary of life
And deceptions

Rest now my children
For soon we'll away
Into the calm and the quiet

Come little children
I'll take thee away
Into a land of enchantment

Come little children
The time's come to play
Here in my garden of magic

[HeisenbergFam]

Hildegard woke up and casually decided to bless us on Spooktober like a Santa coming on Christmas with gifts

[LucasGonzalez-rjbk]

A perfect song for wandering aimlessly through a Middle Ages autumn forest, hoping not to encounter the fair folk

[MarkRose]

Your enchanting voice suits this song perfectly!

[angrygoose]

You’ve earned your children’s souls with this one.

[astrologic]

Amazing version! For some reason my brain started hearing "Once Upon a December" from the "Anastasia" soundtrack.

[GlasswayWarlock]

The Sanderson sisters in dagged sleeves is what I needed to see today.

[fnger]

Disclaimer: Make sure any children are out of the room when you listen to this, otherwise they might start wandering into the forest.

[Xenomorphine]

Have literally been waiting years for someone to do a serious interpretation of the song in this style.

As enchanting as hoped.

[talosheeg]

Just as beautiful as ever, my fair lady. I thank thee for blessing mine ears.

[knight]

Sarah Sanderson, eat your heart out!!!! Beautiful, lyrical, enchanting. You'd steal adults as well as the children with this rendition ❤👏

[caedus]

This Halloween gets a new soundtrack 🔥🔥🔥

[TechBearSeattle]

Hauntingly beautiful, you definitely did the song justice. And the illumination art is perfect.

[droidgeist]

Have you ever done any official soundtracks?
You are so freaking talented - I find it baffling that movies and video games aren't banging down your door to perform for them.

[IncySpider]

Hildegard is the Elf Queen sitting in a misty ring of stones luring children, young and old, to Faerie Land with her enchanting song 🧚‍♀️

[chadmeredith]

The voice is ethereal and the song sounds like it could be in a Tim Burton film (especially Sleepy Hollow). I love it!

[monotropa_uniflora]

Oh my god, the combination I always wanted but never thought of!

[raveneskridge]

OH HELL YEAH! you sing this so beautifully. >:) best birthday upload ever
edit: 😭thanks you guys so much for all the birthday wishes! <3 you've made an internet stranger so happy. im kissing you all on the forehead.

[SFforlife]

Not sure if this would be the voice of a witch or an angel… truly bewitching and beautiful.

[oldmanjack]

Pov: You wake up to the local Fae singing a lovely song and hear your kids start to walk out the door.

Lovely cover as always by the way!

[thsluglord]

I fell to this spell as a child, and still to this day, so many years later, it still compels me, sending shivers down my spine with the mere tune, and the magic of the singing does indeed, take me away.