So I need a little bit of help coming up with a creepy children's rhyme based on a female Drider (like a centaur, but with a spider butt) named Craudel. I'm thinking of something that sounds harmless until you look a little deeper, like Ring around the Rosie. Any suggestions?
Try looking into some song lyrics. I KNOW, I KNOW– But there are a lot of song lyrics with double meanings. I have gotten ideas for situations like yours from them.
Also, maybe describe it as a creature you would find not in a forest (too much of an obvious creepy vibe), yet somewhere like your backyard. Cool, it's in your backyard. WAIT, IT'S IN YOUR BACKYARD? Horrified Screams
Sorry if this didn't help you at all. I'll keep thinking about it and trying to help you out.
i would suggest making the subject of the rhyme not apparent at first. make it so that it seems to be talking about just a normal spider, doing normal spider things. then, in the context of the Craudel, those normal spider things become significantly less… mundane
Spins its web, a spider does
Waiting to be seen
Making traps, is what it loves
You are best to not be seen
And if you are run in fright, for it does not play games
Trapped you are in its beautiful prison, a prison for a beast
It would not be wise to speak its name
For tonight, the Craudel will feast
(You are welcome to use this as it is my own words but if you do then please make sure to state it is mine or it will be plagiarism otherwise)
Thanks so much for helping all!
okay but consider… the itsy bitsy spider….
I don't have a parody in mind at the moment…
but Firesky's is v v good I like it
Thanks! ~w~