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Mermaid / Joanna

The roots of mermaid mythology are more varied than one would expect. In modern myth we tend to see mermaids in a singular way - kind and benevolent to humans who keep to their own kind in the deep waters of the ocean. Not all stories go this way, though, and in most cases the most ancient tales of mermaid mythology follow quite a different view.

The earliest known mermaid legends come from Syria around 1000 B.C. where the Syrian goddess Atargatis dove into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the powers there would not allow her give up her great beauty, so only her bottom half became a fish and she kept her top half in human form.

Some believed that even well-intentioned mermaids would cause great danger to men who believed they saw a woman drowning and would dive into the waters to save them. Other tales suggest that mermaids either forgot or didn't understand that humans could not breathe underwater, and they would pull them down into the depths of the sea, accidentally drowning them in the process.

In the modern mythology of mermaids, however, this is rarely the case. Today these beings are more likely to be seen as innocent and sweet, if not helpful in many cases to human kind.

Old Witch 

Once so beautiful, the Old Witch's always on the lookout for the spell that could return her youth and beauty.  She knows no mercy, and she knows no fear. She just might be the most feared, powerful creature at The Devil's Carnival.

Meanwhile searching for young beautiful people from whom she could steal youth and beauty, she liked to look into the visitor futures.

William was trying to find a way to get out from the carnival, it was that day he discovered he could not go. It had to be a witches job. He was worried about Avery, he hoped she would stay home and not come here. He felt scared for the first time in centuries because he realized he had no power, he had no strength, no speed, nothing. There was like a invisible wall around the carnival, it wasn't letting him go and he hit it with all of his remaining strength but it was no good. He felt very angry, he hit it again and again. Then slowly he started to feel something else in his whole body, something was happening..

Arachne / Alexis

She was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Minerva, the Latin parallel of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts. Arachne refused to acknowledge that her knowledge came, in part at least, from the goddess. The offended goddess set a contest between the two weavers. According to Ovid, the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects (the loves and transgressions of the gods), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face. “Not even Pallas nor blue-fevered Envy \ Could damn Arachne's work. \ The brown haired goddess Raged at the girl's success, struck through her loom, Tore down the scenes of wayward joys in heaven.″ Ultimately, the goddess turned Arachne into a spider. Arachne simply means "spider" (ἀράχνη) in Greek.

Puppet / Katherine

Hidden in the shadows of ignorance, puppets have no free will or own thoughts. Ideas, theories, everything vanishes, only leaving the unbreakable obedience to their master. But they feel and it's uncontrolable not to wonder if they know they're being controlled or if not.

Puppet Master / William

A person who uses their actions or words to control someone or something of a lesser will, also known as pulling the strings of someone or something. Often a puppet master uses actions in addition to thoughtfully assembled words (with a commanding or guilt-inducing voice inflection) as his or her weapon.

Puppet masters use their victims to acquire things, such as sex, money, anything of monetary value, and emotional holds over others (their puppets). A puppet master's interactions with their victim/s is almost always beneficial for the one pulling the strings.

Lamia / Elizabeth

Lamia was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός; laimos), referring to her habit of devouring children, According to Diodorus Siculus, Lamia was born the beautiful daughter of King Belus of Egypt, making her the granddaughter of Poseidon and Lybie.[ Upon her father's death she became queen of one of his territories, Libya. However, while visiting Delphi, Pausanias remarks Lamia was the daughter of Poseidon. He also states Lamia and Zeus were the parents of Herophile, a noted sibyl. Diodorus goes on to relate Lamia had an affair with Zeus and bore him children. When Hera, Zeus' wife, discovered the affair, she became enraged and killed the children. Driven insane with grief, Lamia began devouring other children, and, according to Diodorus, her face became hideously distorted from her grisly deeds Later stories state Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children. Some accounts (such as that of Horace, below) say Hera forced Lamia to devour her own children. Myths variously describe Lamia's monstrous (occasionally serpentine) appearance as a result of either Hera's wrath, the pain of grief, the madness that drove her to murder, or - in some rare versions - a natural result of being Hecate's daughter

Mummy / Bonnie 

A mummy is a deceased human or animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold (ice mummies), very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

Our mummy is a little bit through. Wrapped up in a piece of linen, it walks around the haunted house searching for a friend to talk to. However, who would ever like to be friends with a alive corpse? Everyone seems to fear this friendly creature, and maybe the should. Even mummy makes mistakes, and it often forgets the humans nature thinking only about it's appetite.