There's a story behind this, literally. I had been working on an illustrated story called "Doll Marion", about a doll carved out of Eller Wood who came to life. It was a sort of Pinocchio story, with much darker elements, including The Forget-Me-Nots (a people who are generous and hospitable and outdo themselves to make guests comfortable in their town, but are doomed to be instantly forgotten the moment the guests leave town), and a scene in which people are killed and strung up like puppets -- a horrifying discovery for a living marrionette. The story leads up to a confrontation with The Machine Maid. She was a witch who enslaved a race of mechanical people from their inventor. After rebelling, they killed her and trapped her brain in this mechanical form. They shouldn't have shown even that much mercy, since she eventually got the upper hand again...