A classical of three acts. The liberetto was by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Hammer, a although also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place the slopes of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and autumn of the 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, occultist and adventurer.
Calamaria = a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a known medium.
Clement Bombastus von = the new Jilemnice Captain.
Poebeldorf = the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a thief
Blether = a of castle's stabled and a denouncer.
Spiritus = a of the Jilemnice inn.
A overview of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the period when the popularity of (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but it spread all ober the county, and so from the very of the new century, there had been spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by young and old people - a physician sits there with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite naturally neglected, and the demoralized. is why the new Jilemnice Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who have refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take his duties, A Prague student Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a of a doubtful character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. that he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...