Slappy- Origin 1

The puppet maker was not a normal man. At least that’s what I heard. This is the story as it was told to me. The puppet maker was a sorcerer who used his puppet creations for evil. His puppets and toys made people sick with strange illnesses. He built dolls that injured their owners. Toys that stole precious belongings while their owners slept.
The sorcerer loved spreading misery and evil through innocent-looking toys.

“This has to be a made-up story,” Harrison interrupted. “It sounds like a story. It can’t be true.”
I chewed my bottom lip. “I don’t know,” I replied, flipping back through the pages. “I don’t know if this is true or not.”
I continued reading out loud….

The dummy named Slappy is the sorcerer’s most evil invention. He stole a coffin for its wood. He carved the
dummy from the coffin wood. And then the sorcerer sent his own evil into the dummy. The sorcerer’s evil spirit lives inside Slappy, ready to be awakened by the reading of the evil words of magic the sorcerer wrote.
The sorcerer’s evil lives inside Slappy.
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The ancient words of sorcery to bring him alive are written on a slip of paper inside the dummy’s jacket. When the ancient words are read aloud, the dummy — and the evil — come to life.
I have managed somehow to put Slappy to sleep. I’m not sure how I did it. I only care that the dummy sleeps. I tossed the dummy in the trash, to be hauled away and crushed.
My only hope is that no one finds him. That no one reads those evil words that will bring him back to life.

- Bride of the Living Dummy, chapter 17