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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. The character is sometimes called Rawhead, Tommy Rawhead, or Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones (with or without the hyphens).
The girl remarks on what long fingernails and big teeth the creature has. At the mention of its teeth, Rawhead slyly replies that they are "to eat [her] up with." The story then cuts to when the girl's parents arrive back home to find the girl's remains—a pile of bloody bones. [10]
Bloody Bones, also known as Rawhead or Tommy Rawhead, is a boogeyman of the American South. [55] Rawhead and Bloody Bones are sometimes regarded as two individual creatures or two separate parts of the same monster. One is a bare skull that bites its victims and its companion is a dancing headless skeleton. [56] Bloody Bones tales originated in ...
Apparently based on the folk legend of the same name, Rawhead and Bloody Bones was a fey approximately ten feet tall with a bloody, pulsing head. A children's boggle, Bloody Bones was a true immortal and lived to punish guilty children. He was brought to the US by Magnus and Dorcas's ancestor, who used his blood to make a potion that increased ...
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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1953: The Witch Tree & Rawhead and Bloody Bones (one-shot, November 2015) by Mike Mignola and Ben Stenbeck. Lobster Johnson: The Glass Mantis (one-shot, December 2015) by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Toni Fejzula.
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Rawhead Rex is a 1986 British [1] fantasy horror film directed by George Pavlou from a screenplay by Clive Barker, based on his short story of the same name. The story had originally appeared in Vol. 3 of his Books of Blood series. It stars David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Niall Tóibín, Cora Venus Lunny and Donal McCann.