The thing about a mysterious doll made from someone’s belongings is that the creepiness comes from a high level of ambiguity. With context (i.e. knowing who made it and why), such a doll might be funny or affectionate… or a threat. But with no context at all, it’s pure unknown, which, combined with the intimacy of one’s own items used to fashion it, becomes really disturbing. (It’s the fear of the unknown made personal.) Hair and teeth take it more firmly into terroristic threat territory, so it paradoxically loses ambiguity and thus creepiness.
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