I thought not. It’s not a story the townsfolk would tell you. It’s a Derry legend.

Clown Pennywise was a dark lord of the sewers so powerful and so wise, it could use fear to influence the townspeople to consume…lives. It had such a knowledge of the dark sewers, it could even keep the ones it cared about from escaping.

The fear side of emotions is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

It became so powerful, the only thing it was afraid of was losing its power, which eventually of course it did. Unfortunately, it showed a bunch of losers everything they feared, then those losers killed it in its base. Ironic. It could float other people with fear, but not itself.