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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:32 pm
.: [ Sejii's Quest for a Scarecrow Incantation ]:.
Table of Contents
1. You are here
2. About Aydin
3. About Sejii
4. About Scarecrows
5. Artz
6. Other Stuff
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:34 pm
.:[ If I Only had a Brain... ]:.  Name: Aydin
Meaning: Wise, intelligent
Likes: Relaxing, eating, and listening to music
Dislikes: Fire, crows, and most people that use magic
Appearance: Aydin stands at a much higher length than most Incantations, with his long legs and brooding hat (that is, unfortunately, fastened to his head.) His hair is a very messy mass of golden hay, and his eyes are a bright sky blue.
Personality: Aydin will probably be one of the most kind (and most gullible) person you will meat. He is very liable to be tricked by almost any lie, be it believable to most or not. Even if you did trick him out of a possession, he would probably tell you that he did not need it and move on. He rarely ever shows signs of depression to anyone.
History: (Workin' on it. )
((Art by 13Silver_Sorrows!))
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:36 pm
.:[ About Sejii ]:. Name: Kimberly "Sejii" Love
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Birthplace: Durem
Likes: Running, sleeping, reading, and quiet places
Dislikes: People who use everything they can to boast and ear-shattering noises,
Personality: Sejii is known for being bipolar- one minute she's as happy as can be, the next she's chasing someone down with some sort of weapon in her hands. When she's not in those two extremes, she seems laid back and easy-going.
Description: Sejii stands at 5'5", is 134 pounds and, have been in the armed forces for five years, has a slight muscular build. She usually wears loose-fitting, black or grey clothes, but she wears formal clothes on special occasions. Her hair is a natural crimson color, and is almost always visible in it's roots because of her quick-growing hair. Three of the most noticable features Sejii has are her pointy ears, her half-body length dog tail, and the two scars on each of her cheeks.
Other Notes: As noted earlier, Sejii spent five years in the armed forces, she also spent two years as a law-enforcment officer, she now works as a gaurd-for-hire when she can.
(Art by CatCry!)
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:38 pm
.:[ About Scarecrows ]:. A scarecrow is a device, traditionally a human figure dressed in old clothes, or mannequin, that is used to discourage birds such as crows from disturbing crops. Not only do crows feed on recently cast seed, they also gather nightly, starting with groups of a half dozen which then unite to form a group of 20 to 30 and so on until the flock is quite large and noisy. It is their habit to return to the same place each night.
In the Japanese mythology compiled in Kojiki in 712, a scarecrow appears as a deity, Kuebiko, who cannot walk, but knows everything of the world.
The 1881 Household Cyclopedia of General Information gives the following advice:
Machinery of various kinds, such as wind-mills in miniature, horse rattles, etc., to be put in motion by the wind, are often employed to frighten crows; but with all of these they soon become familiar, when they cease to be of any use whatever.
The most effectual method of banishing them from a corn cob pipe field, as far as experience goes, is to combine with one or other of the scarecrows in vogue the frequent use of the musket. Nothing strikes such terror into these sagacious animals as the sight of a fowling-piece and the explosion of gun powder, which they have known so often to be fatal to their race.
Such is their dread of a fowling-piece, that if one is placed upon a dyke or other eminence, it will for a long time prevent them from alighting on the adjacent grounds. Many persons now, however, believe that crows like most other birds, do more good by destroying insects and worms, etc., than harm by eating grain.
—Henry Hartshorne, The Household Cyclopedia of General Information
Crows can be a problem in Spring gardens. They can work down a row pulling up recently sprouted corn to eat the remaining seed/seedlings. In the southern Appalachians another common method of scaring off crows was use of a dead crow hung upside down from a pole.
Modern scarecrows seldom take a human shape. On California farmland, highly reflective aluminized PET film ribbons are tied to the plants to create shimmers from the sun. Another approach are automatic noise guns powered with propane gas.
In the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a protector of crops dates from time immemorial, and where dialects were rife, there are a wide range of alternative names such as:
* Mommet (Somerset)
* Murmet (Devon)
* Hodmedod (Berkshire)
* Tattie bogle (Scotland)
* Bwbach (Wales)
Scarecrow Trivia
In the short story,"Jeremy in the Wind", a homicidal lunatic carries around a life-size scarecrow as a companion.
In American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Feathertop is about a scarecrow created and brought to life in seventeenth century Salem, Massachusetts by a witch in league with the devil. He is intended to be used for sinister purposes and at first believes himself to be human, but develops human feelings and deliberately cuts his own life short when he realizes what he really is. The basic framework of the story was used by American dramatist Percy MacKaye in his 1908 play The Scarecrow.
Also in American literature, the L. Frank Baum tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, has a scarecrow as one of the main protagonists. The Scarecrow of Oz was searching for brains from the Great Wizard. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz was portrayed by Ray Bolger. In the 1914 film His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz the Scarecrow of Oz was portrayed by Frank Moore.
The Scarecrow is a comic book character in the DC Comics universe. He is a classic Batman villain. Similar characters, known as Scarecrow and Straw Man, appear in the Marvel Comics universe.
The scarecrow "Hodmandod" was a frequent character in the Rupert the Bear cartoon series.
Another animated scarecrow from children's fiction was Worzel Gummidge, who first appeared in series of novels by Barbara Euphan Todd in the 1930s, and later in a popular television adaptation.
"The Scarecrow" was occasionally the pseudonym of a vicar, Doctor Syn, who moonlighted as a smuggler in a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.
Scarecrow is a fictional character created by the Australian author, Matthew Reilly. "Scarecrow" is the callsign of Captain Shane M. Schofield who appears in Ice Station, Area 7, Scarecrow and Hell Island.
Scarecrow is also the alias for Kuroda Shinpei, a character from the popular Japanese anime series Boogiepop Phantom. Upon being assassinated by Mo Murder, it is Scarecrow's cape and hat that go on to define Boogiepop's other-wordly image.
In the novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, the scarecrow is portrayed as an object in a pagan rite that includes human sacrifice. The scarecrows used in this rite then become sometimes sapient and animate, although this is apparently rare.
In the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, the main character attempts to keep birds from eating his newly sowed corn stalks. As a discouragement, he shoots several of the birds and then hangs them in rows, such as English prisoners. The remaining birds are so frightened that they refuse to even remain in the area. While not the modern idea of a scarecrow, Crusoe does remark, "...I could never see a bird near the place as long as my scarecrows hung there." (Crusoe is generally thought of as the first English novel and it is possible that the word "scarecrow" is derived from this moment of scary crows scaring crows.)
In a children's story, Kelson the Scarecrow saves Robbie Noel's cornfield by scaring away 1000 crows in one night.
In the children's series Goosebumps Scarecrows live due to a magical spell in the story The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
In the Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", scarecrows are created by the Family, moving like living creatures by way of "molecular fringe animation". They are used as foot soldiers and for kidnapping people, whom the Family can then possess.
British band Pink Floyd recorded a song called "The Scarecrow" for their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:41 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:44 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:51 pm
And I'm done for the most part! What do you think? :3
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:34 am
Awesome idea!! and good luck! >w<
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:15 pm
Witch_Myso Awesome idea!! and good luck! >w< Thank you! :'D
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:14 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:23 pm
-Grabs her Bait Bag and spreads All-Purpose Bait around the thread for critiquers- ninja heart
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:10 pm
Took down the poll! I surely know that I'm going for Seishin. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 2:04 pm
Weird fact! The word 'Seishin' and the writing on her fan is actually Chinese, not Japanese. -shakes fist at Google and hugs the exchange student at her school- xd
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:02 pm
Changed Seishin's name to Hananosei! It's translation kind of fits her. n_n
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:11 pm
I BREATHE LIFE INTO MY QUEST THREAD. Expect a complete image revamp soon! (Which means new Sejiiarts! :'D)
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