Quotes / Scary Scarecrows

Tabletop Game

No one is quite sure what to make of this silent scarecrow that only appears at night. He never speaks, but amazes the crowds by dancing in mid-air and performing amazing feats of contortion. Most compelling is his haunting, wordless singing, which seems to come from deep within his burlap chest. Burlap Boy appears to be made out of animated cloth - and, in fact, he is. He is actually an Atrocity Realm Bane who follows the carnival for unknown reasons, though some believe that he is a spy for the carnival's patrons. He also whispers from the Penumbra into the ears of circusgoers, urging normal people into the most heinous acts. Burlap boy is a malicious, remorseless killer, attacking his enemies with a long, cruel sickle; he likes to surprise his victims by silently hovering over them before slitting their throats. He is an active and persistent adversary against any who attack the carnival: no matter how much damage he takes, he always reappears eventually.

—Midnight Circus

Video Games

From the ruins of a cursed family rose the Scarecrow animated; undead guardians made from terrible instructions in grim tomes and dark grimoires, imbued with the fresh organs of human prey, hay sprinkled with unguents and oils, and clothes stitched with horrid runes. Willed into existence with whispered words of fear and hatred, they were single-minded in their mission. When their terrible master passed on, they fell into a deep sleep. In dark places across the world, other magi would follow these unspeakable rituals, enacting the very same rites and sacrificing the living in order to create golems malevolent in spirit, sadistic and brutal in nature, both addicted to death and immune to it.

—Flavour text for the Scarecrows, The Secret World,

High above the rotten rows.
Cloth and metal.
Teeth and crows.
Fid-dle-sticks.
End of men.
Fid-dle-sticks.
First of ten!
Through the field
Down the lane.
Voices never heard again.

—Fiddlesticks, League of Legends

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