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The bogeyman (/ ˈ b oʊ ɡ i m æ n /; also spelled or known as bogyman, [1] bogy, [1] bogey, [1] and, in North American English, also boogeyman) [1] is a mythical creature typically used to frighten children into good behavior.
The myth of the Coco, or Cucuy, originated in northern Portugal and Galicia. According to the Real Academia Española, the word coco derives from the Galician and Portuguese côco, which means "coconut". [2] The word coco is used in colloquial speech to refer to the human head in Spanish. [3] Coco also means "skull". [4]
The stories of the creature known as a rougarou are as diverse as the spelling of its name, though they are all connected to francophone cultures through a common derived belief in the loup-garou (French pronunciation: [lu ɡaˈʁu], / ˈ l uː ɡ ə ˈ r uː /).
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]
(Amazingly, The Boogeyman has maintained a PG-13 rating.) Those early reactions, plus a plea from famed author Stephen King, whose beloved 1973 short story the film is based on, changed The ...
Pishtaco play a prominent role in the 2018 edition of the Call of Cthulhu adventure module, Masks of Nyarlathotep, where their mythology is linked to the Lovecraftian entity, Nyarlathotep. [29] Pishtacos also appear as minor supporting characters in the first novel of Josh Erikson's Ethereal Earth series, Hero Forged. [30]
Jessica Lunsford's 2005 slaying is the focus of the season premiere of 'People Magazine Investigates' on Monday, Oct. 28, at 9/8c on Investigation Discovery/ID and streaming on Max
Director Rob Savage and screenwriters Mark Heyman, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods open up Stephen King's taut, grim 1973 short story, and the end result is an unremarkable, woefully derivative adaptation.