Mother Goose

**Mother Goose**, also called **Mère l'Oye**, was a cardinal devil from the Mephisto Clan. She was infamously known for having created hundreds of cursed items based on mundanes' nursery rhymes.

## Overview

The figure of **Mother Goose** is the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. As a character, she appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. This, however, was dependent on a Christmas pantomime, a successor to which is still performed in the United Kingdom.

The term's appearance in English dates back to the early 18th century, when Charles Perrault’s fairy tale collection, *Contes de ma Mère l'Oye*, was first translated into English as *Tales of My Mother Goose*. Later a compilation of English nursery rhymes, titled *Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle*, helped perpetuate the name both in Britain and the United States.

## Appearance

Despite Mother Goose's true appearance to the public, many art depictions present her as a stooped old crone with gray hair hidden under a wide-brimmed bonnet.

Her picture in the Mephisto Manor's [Chamber of Portraits], however, shows her as a middle-aged woman with white hair pulled into a tight bun and crimson eyes.

## Personality

According to Mephisto, Mother Goose was a strange and unpredictable woman. No one was sure what she was planning, or *if* she was planning anything at all, considering her erratic behavior. Despite this, however, he once called her a hypocrite as she "had the audacity" to be annoyed when people acted differently from her plans.

She was among the devils who live solely for the purpose of causing trouble, cursing people, and corrupting souls. However, this wasn't because of any malice, but for her love of chaos and mischief of all kinds. This didn't mean she was just a misunderstood person, as at her core, she was still a cruel and sadistic woman. She deemed humans as nothing but playthings and saw entertainment in their despair and misery. She was also known for having an infamous taste for human flesh, especially that of young prepubescent children.

## History

Mother Goose was among the many cardinal devils created by Mephisto Pheles to be servants of the Mephisto Clan. Like the rest of her "siblings", she dedicated most of her immortal life to spreading endless chaos in the mortal world through her "Cursery Rhymes", cursed items that transform people into demonic beasts based on their worst traits.

As time went on, she began to gain an infamous reputation within the supernatural world, not as a cardinal devil but rather as a powerful old witch, and was eventually targeted by the Vatican after she supposedly made Mary I insane through one of her cursed items - something she denied in her journals but regretted not thinking about doing it herself - and was eventually killed sometimes in the 16th-century by an unnamed exorcist.

After her death, detailed accounts of the tragedies she created was collected, heavily modified, and eventually published in a book of ordinary nursery rhymes for children, titled "Contes de ma Mère l'Oye" by Charles Perrault, or rather, by Mephisto Pheles who was possessing Charles Perrault.

## Equipments

**Book of Cursery Rhymes**: A grimoire created by Mother Goose that contained hundreds and thousands of demonic spells, curses, and rituals in the form of short poems or rhyming songs. Its most infamous power, however, is to create new "Cursery Rhymes" that could transform humans into terrifying demonic beasts based on their sins and worst characteristics.

## Image Gallery

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## Trivia

* The term "Mother Goose rhymes" is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
* To mundane historians, the "figure" known as Mother Goose might be based on the ancient legends of Bertha of Burgundy, Bertrada of Laon, or even the biblical Queen of Sheba.