Creepypasta Research Journal

Theories and Discussion- Scarecrow

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Appearance/Info

Her hair is long and black and she has black eyes and a black smiling mouth. She looks like she has normal human skin but she has bandages on her forearms with hay sticking out. She's white rather than the color of hay or burlap which I find odd. Lastly, she wears a tattered red dress.

She's positioned in a cornfield in Iowa belonging to an 18 year old boy and his family. As a young kid, the boy spoke to her as if she was his best friend. He told her all his secrets even though she never talked back. As he grew he quit talking to her, but one day he notices her in the field and thinks about fixing her up. He also notices that it sort of seems like she grew with him, looking older the older he got. He approaches and talks to her again, saying he's sorry it had been so long since they last spoke. The wind blew gently which he took as a sign from her, and he apologized in response saying his excuse was lousy. When he mentioned he had been busy recently with a girlfriend, the wind stopped suddenly. He didn't address this or find anything wrong with it. He says he'll bring his girlfriend to meet Scarecrow, and that she'd love Scarecrow like he did. (Spoilers: I don't think she did.)

Girlfriend shows up that night and the boy leads her to the field. He turns and notices she isn't following him, so he jokes that she can't hide from him in his own cornfield. He makes his way over to Scarecrow and begins to talk, stopping when he realizes Scarecrow isn't on her perch. His girlfriend is, though. Her stomach was sliced open and she was already dead. He falls to his knees, noticing a note that says "Now you don't have to be so busy." (Talk about a problem solver.) He stands, turning and coming face to face with Scarecrow. It ends there with no mention of what happened to him.

Traits

Since she never speaks her traits have to be inferred. I personally think she's jealous, something shown when the wind stops as soon as a girlfriend was brought up. Her jealousy might not be out of romantic feelings for the boy, she could also just be jealous that her best friend's attention is on another girl. But it could be romantic, I have no clue.

She seems to speak through the wind, which the boy can understand and interpret. He doesn't appear to notice her unhappiness at the mention of the girlfriend though as he totally ignores the wind's abrupt silence. Dense.

Motive

So her boy doesn't have to be too busy to pay attention to her.

Method

She tied the girlfriend to her own post and sliced open her stomach.

Weapon(s)

A scythe. It isn't stated in her story but she's drawn with one by her author.

Theories

I already mentioned this above but I think she communicates through the wind, which the boy then interprets with some level of accuracy.

I don't really know what to think of her, is she a tulpa? Demon? Faery? Personally, my best guess is some sort of nature spirit. Could be a faery since lots of faeries have to do with nature. She can communicate through wind, she stands guard over a plot of land, and she can move around of her own free will. Maybe she stays attached to the scarecrow so she can stay with the boy and his family. I wonder if she snuck off her post often to visit the boy at night without him knowing. I bet she did, surely she wasn't content to sit on a post ignored for years. In a lot of lore, nature spirits can be kept around with offerings. They take care of something and in return you give them something. Maybe she grew to love the boy though, so she didn't want any offerings other than his attention. Or, she took any birds that came around as an offering. Or she took corn, who knows? It's also possible she considered the scarecrow an offering since she used it as her body. As a spirit, she probably lacks a corporeal form of her own. To fix this, she moves around using the scarecrow. And seeing as a scarecrow doesn't have a voice box, she writes a note or uses the wind to say what she wants. This is a really shaky theory to be honest, there isn't much evidence. I'm just grasping at straws. (Get it, cause hay.) Anyway, I don't think of her as a tulpa/something created by the boy because of her ability to mess with the wind. I think it takes an entity stronger than something created from the mind to mess with things like that. That's the best I've got, the story is very brief and doesn't give a lot of detail. I really like the story though. A little cliché, sure, but it doesn't go on longer than it needs to and I like the cliffhanger.

I don't think she killed the boy at the end. She does seem to genuinely like him and want his attention, so she got rid of what was in the way to make sure she could have him all to herself. Maybe if he tried to burn her or something she'd kill him, but I think that would be a last resort. She went ignored for years and when he came back, she didn't hurt him. Only the girlfriend. She could have easily stabbed him in the back while he was staring at his girlfriend's corpse or running through the cornfield, but she didn't. Sure it's possible she did when he turned around to face her, but since it isn't stated, I like to think she left him alive.

Yeah she honestly does sound like a spirit. Maybe she took over the form of the scarecrow though, like a conduit? In some kind of way. Maybe it's easier than taking a physical form. (Since spirits are technically metaphysical, and it's difficult as fuck to manifest physically for them) There's a possibility she somehow got attached to the guy, and so she began trying to physically form through the scarecrow. Cause that's probably easiest than trying to create a form of her own out of thin air lol. I think the conduit idea makes most sense to me. - Brinlee