Mystic Lady / Olden Sleaze Mash-Up

The Mystic Lady employed for erotic commerce: The music of Joanna Newsom's "Sprout and the Bean" is featured in a Victoria's Secret ad.

Lingerie is one thing, but if you wish to improve your sexual potency the old fashioned way; by employing arcane mystical lore, I invite you to listen to Louise Huebner. Oh, she's the "Official Witch of Los Angeles." This is from her 1969 spoken-word album "Seduction Through Witchcraft." Use at your discretion.

 Mystic Lady

The musical persona of the Mystical, dare I say Witchy, Woman has made a huge comeback recently. While ol' Stevie Nicks is probably the most famous pioneer of this sort of style (drug-damaged and ethereal, a sort of hippie version of the femme fatale), I prefer Kate Bush.  

Wild eyed to the point of seeming possessed, draped in modern-dance widow's weeds, in the gauzy light of this video she appears as a wraithlike cunning woman performing weird musical spell-casting.  It's a powerful feminine persona, a pagan spiritual alternative to the futurist androgyny of a Patti Smith or Laurie Anderson.

Compare "Babooshka" to the brand new "When I Grow Up" by Fever Ray.  

The same disheveled drapery, possessed/wounded robot dance moves, and over all, the same mysterious mystic aura.  (This time married to Laurie Anderson's vocal distortions).  She'll put a spell on you.  Compare also:

Bat For Lashes

Gang Gang Dance

Ladyhawk

etc