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Que Viene el Coco (1799) by Goya. The Coco or Coca (also known as the Cucuy, Cuco, Cuca, Cucu, Cucuí or El-Cucuí) is a mythical ghost-like monster, equivalent to the bogeyman, found in Spain and Portugal. Those beliefs have also spread in many Hispanophone and Lusophone countries.
Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram; Chukwa – Giant turtle that supports the world; Chullachaki; Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock; Churel – Vampiric, female ghost; Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
Goya's Que viene el Coco' (Here Comes the Boogeyman/The Boogeyman Is Coming), c. 1797. The bogeyman (/ ˈ b oʊ ɡ i m æ n /; also spelled or known as bogyman, [1] bogy, [1] bogey, [1] and, in US English, also boogeyman) [1] is a mythical creature typically used to frighten children into good behavior.
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.
Cuco may refer to: Cuco (folklore), a ghost-monster in folklore; Cuco (musician), an American singer-songwriter; Cuco (construction), a type of dry stone construction ...
The Cuckoo's Curse (Spanish: El cuco) is a 2023 supernatural thriller film directed by Mar Targarona [] from a screenplay by Alfred Pérez-Fargas and Robert Danès, and starring Belén Cuesta, Rainer Reiners, Jorge Suquet, and Hildegard Schroedter.
Cuco is the same as boogey man in english —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wesborland (talk • contribs) 6:40 pm, 1 February 2007, Thursday (5 years, 10 months, 26 days ago) (UTC−7). Cuco means BogeyMan, who looks for disobedient children. Cuco is a slang for female underwear (and "cuca" is what is underneath the "cuco.")
El (/ ɛ l / EL; also ' Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; [6] Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil or إله ʾilāh [clarification needed]; cognate to Akkadian: 𒀭, romanized: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.