The dark, imaginary creature that scares disobedient children so much that they don't even dare to open a closet door after hearing its name exists in many languages!! Hey, you might think this is silly, but we found a very interesting list of names and stories behind the monster in several languages. Actually, it would be nice if all you could add to our list. How would it be called in Arabic? Russian? Urdu? Chinese??!!
In USA is the "bogeyman". It sounds funny. In Latin America is called "el cuco" o "el coco". Yes, coco means coconut in English.
Things got even more interesting when we asked our Italian teacher if children in Italy go through the same agony. When he said: "spauracchio", we all laughed. It sounds so elegant and harmless; almost like Spiderman. :-)) Oh, we love Italian!
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2 comments:
I think the name in Portuguese is BICHO-PAPÁO.
Thanks for a fun game.
Don
Haven't heard about such a man in France..... Maybe "Père Fouettard" (from the verb "Fouetter", you know, when you beat somebody with a leather kind of piece of string... I am not understandable here... Sorry...)
Funny game :-)
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