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@remindmetweets Using imagery of a decrepit, aged being, the writers capitalise on society's fear of ageing and becoming unable to function—or even physically look like—what the rest of society expects a person to appear as.
This is scary and promotes fear on a primal level with an audience.
@remindmetweets The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell—an English Shakespearean scholar and antiquarian—in 1842.
@remindmetweets Beyond this, the only link to anything in real life that this entity has, is that of the nursery rhyme 'There Was a Crooked Man'.
The film makes some changes to the lines of this poem, but the metaphors are very similar.
@remindmetweets While the Warrens' have never posited the real name of the demon which is currently possessing the doll, here are a few from history that may fit the bill:
Phenex — (also Pheynix, Phoenix, Phoeniex) is a Great Marquis of Hell and has twenty legions of demons under his command.
‘The Apocalypse’, a painted plate created by artist Catherine Gogerty.
Digital 3D sculptures of mythological creatures by artist Marcus Yarbrough.