https://thetoyzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/01_The-Boogeyman-Iteration-Worldwide.jpg
Link for slightly better quality image
And the article has zoomed in maps of some continents https://thetoyzone.com/nightmare-fuel-iterations-of-the-boogeyman
Probably most, if not all, have something comparable, even if it’s not explicitly named the same. Saalua in Iraq, I have no idea what that is and never heard of it before, but that looks pretty close to a succubus or just a garden variety demon. Same with many of the others, if somebody hasn’t already written something up for that specific entity, you can be sure a comparable one already exists.
Isn’t Mørkø for Finland just Hufsa from Moomin?
Yes, the name Mörkö directly translates to boogeyman, but I wouldn’t really count it as one.
Similar to Baba Yaga, on Balkan we have Baba Roga
Wtf is a “Seven o’clock man”? I’ve lived in Canada most of my life (5 provinces and counting), and in Uni lived with a couple people doing folklore degrees. The fact that I’ve never heard of our national Boogie man tells me they’re reaching.
Googled it. French-Canadian story dating from 19th century maybe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And the article was American.
Sounds like a really lazy way for parents to make sure their kids are back home before it gets too late, from the generations that didn’t have to care where their kids were at all hours of the day. Just make up some dumb shit like, “Be back before dark or the Seven O’Clock Man will get you!” and other than that they don’t give a shit what the kid does the rest of the day.
Am French-Canadian raised, i remember the Seven o’clock man. It was used as a bedtime rule, something about being in bed before 7 or the man gets you. Never heard it in english tho, it was always “Bonhomme sept heures”.
That would make sense. It has a modern feel to it too - clocks weren’t a common household item until the last 150 years or so.
I know at least 3 things that aren’t even close.
Like you put international ones in just a contry and you give random countries the boogie man of their neighbours.
In most places it’s just called boggie man but in whatever language they are speaking.
For them all to be called boggie man that means they had to share similar traits…
Yeah, I have no idea who made the map (the “Toy Zone” I suppose?) so I wouldn’t imagine it’s very accurate. I guess many of them seem to be “boogiemen” in the sense of creatures that parents warn their children will eat them, kidnap them, etc. But even the ones I recognise don’t all match that…
But as a random collection of weird monster ideas, I thought it was pretty cool.
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regarding Switzerland:
That’s not what the Bögg is…
Schmutzli would be a better fit for this.
Lot of Bs over there near eastern Europe.
