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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. Category:Hungarian legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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  4. Category:Bogeymen - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to Bogeymen and equivalent figures from various cultures, a type of mythic creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior. Bogeymen have no specific appearance and conceptions vary drastically by household and culture, but they are most commonly depicted as masculine or androgynous monsters that punish children for misbehavior. [1]

  5. Nosferatu (word) - Wikipedia

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    From the description by Wlislocki, who was a half-Saxon native of Brașov (German: Kronstadt, Hungarian Brassó), one of Saxon Transylvania's "seven cities"). One proposed etymology of nosferatu is that the term originally came from the Greek nosophoros (Greek: νοσοφόρος), meaning "disease-bearing". [14] F. W.

  6. Bodach - Wikipedia

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    Bodach s are seen at the beginning of Moonshine by Rob Thurman.; Bodach s occasionally appear in Charles de Lint's books of mythic fiction.; The term Bodach is used to describe shadow-like or "ink like" creatures—invisible to most people—that appear at locations before disasters in the books Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, and ...

  7. Shellycoat - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Grimm stated in his Deutsche Mythologie [3] that the Scottish goblin Shellycoat is one and the same as the German Schellenrock, that is bell-coat: . A pück [home-sprite] served the monks of a Mecklenburg monastery for thirty years, in kitchen, stall and elsewhere; he was thoroughly good-natured, and only bargained for 'tunicam de diversis coloribus, et tintinnabulis plenam.' [a "parti ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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