Mother Goose

**Mother Goose**, also known as the **Mère l'Oye**, was the alias of a demon who had created thousands of cursed items known as "Cursery Rhymes". Not much is known about her, as she killed in the 16th-century.

## 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

Although Mother Goose's appearance was never revealed, several art depictions present her as a stooped older woman with gray hair hidden under a wide-brimmed bonnet. Being a demon, it's most likely that she also possessed their shared traits of having no wings and empty eye sockets.

## Personality

According to Mephisto, Mother Goose was a strange and unpredictable woman even in Heaven, when they were still archangels working in the same department. 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 demons 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. She deemed humans as nothing but playthings and saw entertainment in their despair and misery.

This didn't mean she was just a misunderstood person, however, as at her core, she was still a cruel and sadistic demon. She was known for having an infamous taste for human flesh, especially that of young prepubescent children.

## History

Not much is known about Mother Goose, though like other demons, she was one of the angels who fought on Lucifer's side during the Heavenly War and was banished into the Underworld as a result. Prior to her banishment, she was an archangel working in the same department as Mephisto Pheles, and her erratic behavior would often drive their leader mad.

When the Great War ended, she was one of the demons who managed to escape imprisonment behind the Ouroboros Barrier. However, unlike the rest of her fellow demons, instead of laying low and living an anonymous life like Lucifer instructed, she continued to dedicate her eternal life to spreading endless chaos in the mortal world through her "Cursery Rhymes", cursed items that transform people into daemon based on their worst traits.

As such, she became an infamous figure in history, being presented in numerous tragedies across the world, many of which were caused by her "Cursery Rhymes". As time went on, she began to gain an infamous reputation within the supernatural world, not as a demon 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.

She was eventually killed sometime in the 16th-century by an unnamed exorcist, who managed to slash her throat with a dagger made of divine metals before dying of his wounds, mere moments before her body exploded in a burst of *miasma* and demonic power. 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.

## Equipment

**Book of Cursery Rhymes** (悪魔の童謡の呪われた本ブック・オブ・カーサーリー・ライムズ, *Bukku obu Kāsārī Raimuzu*): 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 daemon 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.