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  2. Bogeyman - Wikipedia

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    The word bogeyman, used to describe a monster in English, may have derived from Middle English bugge or bogge, which means 'frightening specter', 'terror', or 'scarecrow'. It relates to boggart, bugbear (from bug, meaning 'goblin' or 'scarecrow' and bear) an imaginary demon in the form of a bear that ate small children. It was also used to mean ...

  3. List of English words of Hungarian origin - Wikipedia

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    But the Hungarian friss comes from the German frisch, in general with the same meaning (fresh). goulash From gulyás, a type of stew known in Hungarian as gulyás. In Hungary, 'gulyásleves' is a soup dish; leves meaning soup. Gulyás also means 'herdsman' dealing with cattle, as the noun gulya is the Hungarian word for

  4. Sack Man - Wikipedia

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    Der Mann mit dem Sack (the man with the bag) by Abraham Bach der Ältere. Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet with naughty children, 1885 Gruss vom Krampus, ca. 1900. The Sack Man (also called the Bag Man or Man with the Bag/Sack) is a figure similar to the bogeyman, portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away.

  5. Category:Hungarian legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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  6. Babay (Slavic folklore) - Wikipedia

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    A modern depiction of a Silesian bebok in Katowice, Poland. Babay or Babai (Russian: Бабай) is a night spirit in Slavic folklore.According to beliefs, he abducts children who do not sleep at night or behave badly. [1]

  7. Lujza Blaha - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the Hungarian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  8. Bloody Bones - Wikipedia

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    Bloody Bones is a bogeyman figure in English and North American folklore whose first written appearance is approximately 1548. As with all bogeymen the figure has been used to frighten children into proper deportment.

  9. Vodyanoy - Wikipedia

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    Vodyanoy by Ivan Bilibin, 1934. In Slavic mythology, vodyanoy (Russian: водяной, IPA: [vədʲɪˈnoj]; lit. '[he] from the water' or 'watery') is a water spirit.In Czech and Slovak fairy tales, he is called vodník (or in Germanized form: Hastrman), and often referred to as Wassermann in German sources.