Okay, so I've been reading about creepy folklores. Like about this black dog with red eyes...and apparently terrorizes villagers or something...I didn't read it all because it didn't seem scary enough for me. Then there was Black Annis, who is basically like the bogeyman, and eats children, which is really creepy!! Then Jenny Greenteeth who pulls the elderly and children underwater and drowns them. And red caps, which are murderers who are famous for making people's hats red with their blood or something like that...
Now I'm reading about Elizabeth Bathory and Vlad Ţepeş. If ya don' know about them! Let me explain...>:)
Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian countess who is know as the "Blood Countess" because is probably the most famous female serial killer in history, and killed the most people, I think. She thought that blood would make her younger and more beautiful, and particularly blood of poor female girls. She was lure them into her castle by y'know saying that's a good place and all, and then she would kill them, or have the other kills kill the others and then had their blood drained into a bath for her to soak in everyday, and the women were treated as her slaves, and if they didn't do what she said she would bathe in their blood. Yeesh, very very creepy isn't she? She's sometimes thought of as a vampire, but I just thinking she's a really messed up lady (serial killer). Serial killers are really creepy...O.O
Oi...okay...that's just a legend, but still, that story is creepy!! But, she abused and killed the women anyway.
THEN Vlad Ţepeş!! Also known as Dracula. He's also known as Vlad the Impaler. He was just a prince/ruler person...thing...who impaled and tortured captured war criminal people, and led the country (was it a country) to victory. Now, he's not as messed up as Elizabeth Bathory. He just impaled lots of people and watched...but for a realistic purpose. He hated the other guys in the war as much to kill them in a very painful way. How he's known as Dracula, I don't really know. Basically, the enemies in whatever war he was in told stories of how evil and terrible he was, though he was just torturing them. I'm not saying torturing is good, just that it's not incredibly creepy and not worthy of calling the guy Dracula. He wasn't bloody enough, though he killed many people, but he wasn't as serial killer...not really...
OH! And never read creepy folklores on wiki while listening to Aural Vampire music, I got scared A LOT when I was reading this stuff...I hope I don't get nightmares...
Anyways, I want to join that one challenge Bloody Nursery Rhymes, but I don't want to use some kinda nursery rhyme that is just randomly picked and made bloody, like hot crossed buns...why would I make that bloody!? It has nothing to do with anything. So I was looking through nursery rhymes with creepy meanings...and I've found some:
Rock-a-bye Baby (I thought this was based off of something that is common in Native American culture, to hang you baby in a cradle up high in a tree, and then it would fall over, or there was some significance to it, but wiki didn't say anything about it): Well, at the end the baby falls out of the cradle, and is probably dead...But I don't like drawing babies...-.-;
Ladybird Ladybird: I LOVE this nursery rhyme! I don't know why. It's a really grim nursery rhyme, at least one rendition is. It's the shortest rendition of the nursery rhyme:
Ladybird, Ladybird
Your house is on fire
Your children shall burn
NYAHAAAHAAAAAHHHH!! So I was thinking of doing this one, but I don't know how to do it...yet...
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater: Okay, so this is VERY creepy nursery rhyme. Peter didn't like his wife, but he liked pumpkins, so he chopped her up and put her in a pumpkin...sooo...ummm...I think that'd be WAAAY to violent to draw...I don't wanna draw that.
London Bridge is Falling Down: Okay, so I was reading on wiki that it may be related to some kinda story about children being buried under the bridge alive. See, read this rendition, the earliest:
London Bridge is broken down.
Then we must build it up again.
What shall we build it up withal?
Build it up with iron and steel,
Iron and steel will bend and break.
Build it up with wood and stone,
Wood and stone will fall away.
Then we must set a man to watch,
Suppose the man should fall asleep?
Then we must put a pipe in his mouth,
Suppose the pipe should fall and break?
Then we must set a dog to watch,
Suppose the dog should run away?
Then we must chain him to a post.
So...it may sound like they are going to use iron, stell, and wood, but they never say what they're going to use. So the "Then we must set a man to watch," is probably leading to that theory. So I'll probably make my picture based off of London Bridge...though the theory of this is kinda complicated, I think I can get it...It is broken, so they must fix it again, but using human bodies, and their ghosts shall watch to make sure it doesn't fall again...Yep, pretteh creepy...but I'm not sure if I want to join just yet...
Oi! So, enjoy ze creepiness! ^ ^
Gosh, I wanna join so many challenges, but I don't have time (and I can't draw during school because the classes end very fast and I haven't had any free time yet)...
OI! Bye-bye now! I'ma gonna go have an everything bagel for dinner! ^ ^
