This wonderful charity place reading helpers in schools to support children who have fallen behind their peers. Marabbecca is a malevolent water monster from the mythology of Sicily that was said to reside in wells and reservoirs and to come up and drag children in that played too close to the water. Iceland – The Icelandic equivalent of the Bogeyman is Grýla, a female troll who is said to take and eat misbehaving children on Christmas Eve, despite supposedly having been dead for some time. Coconuts ( Spanish: coco) received that name because the hairy, brown "face" created by the coconut shell's three indentations reminded the Portuguese sailors of "Coco". Cipelahq (or Chebelakw) is a dangerous bird spirit of Wabanaki folklore, used in stories to scare children into obeying their parents.

Vietnam - In Vietnam, the Ông Ba bị, Ông kẹ or Ngáo ộp is a creature often used by adults to scare children if they disobey. Il y a également beaucoup d’interactions avec le lecteur, ce qui rend la lecture vivante et addictive! Hungary – The Hungarian equivalent of the Bogeyman is the Mumus, which is a monster-like creature, as well as the Zsákos Ember, literally meaning "a man with a sack". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Within Inuit mythology, there is also the Qallupilluit, human-like creatures with long fingernails, green skin, and long hair that live in the sea. Yes, it’s a bit gross with a monster made of bogeys, sling-snots and buckets of ooey gooey slug slime. In actuality, since they appear before those who weren't given love and are unable to heal their sadness, mothers who shower their kids in love like the ones who tell those stories won't actually have their kids snatched away.

Luxembourg – De béise Monni (the evil uncle), De Kropemann (the hookman), De Bö, and de schwaarze Mann (the black man) are Luxembourg's equivalents of the Bogeyman. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. What Willamina also hasn’t reckoned with is the combined might of Frank, his friend Tiffany and her four pet slugs, and, of course, Monster Bogey, which, it seems the may not be quite so monstrous as first thought. They carry babies and children away in their parkas if children they disobey their parents and wander off alone close to the water.Rawhead and Bloody Bones are sometimes regarded as two individual creatures or two separate parts of the same monster. The personality traits of bogeymen most easily divide the species into three categories: the kind that punishes misbehaving children, the kind that is more prone to violence, and the kind that protects the innocent. We receive an overwhelming positive feedback each year from the teachers, parents and students who have involvement in these competitions and publications, and we will continue to strive to attain this level of excellence with each competition we hold. A contemporary usage of the word is in Moomin-stories (originally written in Swedish) in which mörkö ( the Groke) is a large, frightening, dark blue, ghost-like creature. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

He is variously referred to as el Hombre del costal, el hombre de la bolsa, el hombre del saco, or in Portuguese, o homem do saco, all of these names meaning "the sack man" or "the bag man". During the Green Corn Ceremony, young Cherokee boys wearing caricature masks would make fun of politicians, frighten children into being good, and shake their masks at young women and chase them around. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son. Many believed that they were made to torment humans, and while some only played simple pranks, others were more foul in nature. 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. When I'm not reading I can be found either coaxing things to grow, creating knitted stuff or going to see live music. The Cuca is also a character of Monteiro Lobato's Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ("Yellow Woodpecker's Farm"), a series of short novels written for children which contain a large number of famous characters from Brazilian folklore.