Can someone please make a Fiddlesticks nursery rhyme!
Having Fiddlesticks as like an urban legend kind of demon would be amazing, and having a nursery rhyme about him would be a cherry on top!
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Four little children running through the fields Laughing, dancing, not careful where they tread Run past the scarecrow with a friendly smile Fly my little birds, is what the scarecrow said
Three little children running through the fields Singing, shouting, follow where the birds led Run past the scarecrow its arms stretched far Fly my little birds, is what the scarecrow said
Two little children running through the fields Searching worrying but only found red Run past the scarecrow its mouth open wide Fly my little birds, is what the scarecrow said
One little child left running through the fields Screaming crying overwhelmed with dread Run past the scarecrow its laughter in his ear I have you little bird, is what the scarecrow said
A little crow sits on the wall. A little Timmy lies down below. Other kids cry and other kids wail. Not for little Timmy and to no avail.
He doesn't run, he doesn't chase... He lives off anger, feeds on hate... His hunger, one, you cannot sate...
He doesn't run, he doesn't chase. So off you go, you must make haste! Run! Run! Run! No time to waste!
He doesn't run, he doesn't chase! No time to run! You can't escape! What does he do? ...He waits...
I think a nursery rhyme, and how many there are with questionable contents and can be seen as rather creepy, ultimately is creepy not because it's full of gore and violence per se, well it is often so, but framed and worded in a way that is subtly brutal even if the literal wording may not be as much.
After all, London Bridge Is Falling Down is a nursery rhyme entirely about the destruction of London with the fall of its famed London Bridge. It is creepy, but not in a way it describes the death of the citizen or the fear in the atmosphere. But instead, it's the song's utter unmoved and even disregard towards such a catastrophe as the fall of the London Bridge and what it symbolises so much it's tagged with a light tune to go along with it.
This isn't to say to avoid all direct reference to horror elements, but we want to be snarky and a little subtle and indirect about it to replicate the full effect.
After all, horror is only the scariest when it sinks in, amirite?
All in all, I think nursery rhymes especially if you're going for the creep route, should aim for a "innocently sinister" effect.
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Though I still wonder why so many nursery rhymes have such a creepy content in the first place. And it's not like the children actually got the implication and that's why they repeat it without knowing the context, nor would it be helpful to them even if they do get it (in fact, if they do they'd probably be mentally fucked a little too early).
A part of me thinks nursery rhymes are also for the parents just as much as the kids, to calm them down even in the harshest of times just as it is to help a children sleep. The bits for the children was just the rhyming given calmness and/or repetitiveness often help one sleeps, while the actual lyrics, are for the adults to vent off some steam in a sense. But idk.
My 2 cents.