What Scared You?

[33girl]

When I was 8, we had a book in our "free reading" bookshelf at school that had a picture of (this is how I remember it) an ogre robbing a grave. I don't know why but it scared the crap out of me, and I remember having a dream about it. After that, and ever since then, I have to have the curtains completely closed when I sleep - if they don't overlap in the middle and there's a sliver of light coming through, I'm afraid that ogre from the book will be able to come into my room and get me. This has gotten better since I have a nice big cat who sleeps on my bed or somewhere in my room and who will undoubtedly protect me.

The other scary dream I used to have (when I was 9-10) was that I was trapped in a car that was going backwards down the hill on the main road by our house. I'm guessing that meant I felt like I had no control in my life. I sucked in my breath for a long time when we went up that hill.

[SWTXBelle]

Maleficient scared me when I was youn, but I now think she is AWESOME.

One of the original "Wizard of Oz" books featured creatures with pumpkin heads who threw their heads at Dorothy -scary, scary picture haunted me.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Maleficient scared me when I was youn, but I now think she is AWESOME.

I once put this somewhere else on GC but when the Disney Kingdom Keeper books came out, I emailed Ridley Pearson and told him about my horror of Maleficent over the years and asked him why he resurrected her anyway. He wrote something to the effect of, "I have this THING for Maleficent!"

Aggh. I better get used to her being back, it seems. Soon after Sleeping Beauty came out, my mother put these sweeping black curtains in one of the bathrooms and commented, "Hey, they look like Maleficent's robes!" That was it, I was out of there, didn't go back in that bathroom for months.