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Drawlloween 31
🕑 Added 2022-10-31 23:41:18 +0000 UTCEdit: Forgot to say that this one was prompted by these two suggestions here, and also a little bit by Cedar's suggestion as I think it still fits the bill~
2nd: A group of trick or treaters being captured by witch and now being fatten up by her.
A trick or treater winds up at a house of a person who is very eager to give her some candy. Much more than even her stretchy body can handle.
Ooh, perhaps a pumpkin headed, scarecrow like avatar of Samhain awakens and runs amok, big fae monster mash!
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Today's prompt is Halloween.....
This is a Pumpkin Hag, along with a Gourdo, also known as a Leshonky seen here 
, and a cursed doll. We've seen cursed dolls before here 
and these ones are in the advanced animate state that allows them to walk around and commit atrocities....
Pumpkin Hags, sometimes known as Gourd Hags, are like all hags, and derive from gourd witches that have grown old and allowed the malice of the world to corrupt them too deeply, causing them to transform into something hideous.
Pumpkin Hags are large, hunched old women with huge pumpkins or gourds for a head. One gets a whiff of pumpkin spice and pumpkin innards from the hag from time to time, however there is always the underlying scent of rot and decay somewhere in there, and upon closer inspection they're usually dripping with gore, viscera, and pumpkin pulp. They are known for baking delicious treats from pumpkin, pumpkin spice rolls, pumpkin pie, salted or sugared pumpkin seeds... they make pumpkin ice cream and all sorts of delicious goods. They lure people in, in the same way as hags of consumption, and they often times work together because of this (Or occasionally wage war against one another for filling the same niche in an area). They lure people in with baked goods while disguised as a kindly old woman, and then they get the unwitting person addicted to their sweet foods so they can fatten them up and boil them to eat, or grind them up and spread them over their gardens of sin.
They can manipulate pumpkins, causing them to stand up from the ground with vines, or open mouths with jagged teeth and have the little pumpkins attack their foes, or she can simply cause their vines to grow around a creature and enwreath them, or a pumpkin to grow massive in size. She can also control jack o' lanterns and cause them to spout flames, fly around, or even simply use them to watch people through their eyes. She can grow gigantic pumpkins from pumpkin seeds in an instant, and even worse, she can grow whole pumpkins from anything containing pumpkn at all, and so if you eat a slice of her pumpkin pie, she could grow an entire pumpkin patch inside of you in an instant and let the gourds burst free from inside of you. Many hungry children and beggars find a pumpkin hag's home following the scent of a pie on the doorstep, only to take a bite and be filled to bursting with pumpkins, becoming a new part of the garden in an instant as the hungry gourds eat your flesh and feast on your soul to nourish themselves. They can also use pumpkin seeds to mind control creatures, causing roots to grow from the seeds and dig into a creature, planting itself inside of them and growing, allowing her to manipulate you into doing her bidding.
Gourd hags, as with other fruit or vegetable hags, tend to keep gardens of sin, in which they feed blood, flesh, innocence, and souls. They cultivate these gardens with corpses, performing a ritual that instills a bloodthirstyness into the very soil, and then burying a dead child or baby in the garden to feed them. The vegetables that grow from this have wrinkled and contorted faces, though they are often the most delicious you've ever tasted. The spirits occasionally call out from the garden, and they are often times full of ghosts or whispering plants asking for help. The hag sometimes simply kills a person or child to feed the garden, but that will satiate it for only a short time, and if the garden is not fed, the gourds and plants may uproot and go in search of blood, starting with the hag. And as such she lures in those that she can through the delicious foods, stuffing them and feeding on their fear of growing larger and larger, and their gluttony and lust for more sweets, killing them at the last moment and allowing the garden to be nourished for a great amount of time and for her veggies to flourish.
From these gardens, she can cultivate souls, the souls of those she's slain. She can either use them to spark life into other gourds, to allow them to arise as Leshonky that do the witch's bidding, and take on twisted wrinkled faces of the children she's killed, or she uses them to create sinful foods that addict or transform those who eat them, create cursed dolls similar to the leshonky, or even use these souls to extract Genesium from creatures, which are crystalline heart fragments of living creatures emotion. They extract fear and sin from these targets to bake into their pumpkin dishes and feed their garden to grow stronger, eating the pumpkin dishes themselves. On occasion they will take several pumpkin witches under their wing and teach them the art of magic while also subjecting the little witches to their own spells with only the most willful pumpkin witches surviving the process.
Like all Hags, they are often found in the dreamlands, where they lure people in, or give them prophetic dreams to lure them in, or even manipulate friends and family, something made easier if they've consumed her foods in the past. They are also able to find their way to the Underside as it is full of lost children looking for meaning and escape.
It seems these two trick or treaters are in for a bad time with this pumpkin hag... She's probably pleasantly surprised at how much Victoria is able to handle... though the other little girl won't be as durable... nor as lucky.
The cursed doll she has isn't too different than anything I've explained before, simply a creepy cursed doll with a pair of scissors. Most cursed dolls aren't this large though, but it shows that stuffed animals and dollies of all sizes can be granted awful life and made to be violent.
The Gourdo or Leshonky down there is also no different than what I've described before, being a creepy little pumpkin guy with a weapon. They may have a bit more personality than the average one as they are filled with souls of tortured children, and so their childlike nature most likely shines through...
On Halloween they celebrate, and join with the creatures known as Night Wanderers to capture greedy little children to bring back to their home, and are often times followers of Samhain.
