I was reading about the Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2 (2016), one of Valak's manifestations, and got curious about the nursery rhyme behind it.
The nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man" first appeared in print in James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England in 1842, though the rhyme itself is probably older. Some historians believe the "crooked man" refers to the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" supposedly refers to the border between England and Scotland.
I was reading about the Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2 (2016), one of Valak's manifestations, and got curious about the nursery rhyme behind it.
The nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man" first appeared in print in James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England in 1842, though the rhyme itself is probably older. Some historians believe the "crooked man" refers to the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" supposedly refers to the border between England and Scotland.