Every country and culture has a different version of the same myth.

Scary seasonis here and that means one thing — monster and ghouls ( some fake and somemaybereal ) are everywhere . It ’s also the right time to wreak back old , terrifying myths from the past , and if you ’re jaunt this time of the year , you might want to learn all about the scary traditional knowledge of the country you ’re visiting , since it ’s very likely it ’ll be different from yours .

For example , did you bang that some variant of the Boogeyman existseverywhere ? Well , at least in a sense . The mythic creature that is oh - so - terrific , peculiarly for small fry , is sort of a general phenomenon . Basically , many countries in the world developed the same grotesque construct — a terrifying creature that is used by grownup to dash kids into behaving well .

Of of course , though , when ask to describe the Boogeyman , the answers are unlike depend on the country and position . plaything revue site TheToyZone , though , did us all a favor , and after explore books and clause about the myth of the Boogeyman around the public , it put together a comprehensive map of all of its world-wide iterations . you could find it correctly here :

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In some countries , the concept of the Boogeyman is embodied by a ghost , in some other place , instead , it ’s a goblin . It even takes the strain of vainglorious scary animate being , and in some culture , it is described as a terrifying mermaid - similar human body . manlike , distaff , genderless ; old , young , ageless — you name it ! The Boogeyman can , quite frankly , be anything — and its name vary , too .

In North America , for example , there are even dissimilar local iterations of the Boogeyman . As TheToyZone points out from its findings , the Jersey Devil from New Jersey is just one of them . The scary brute is described as the unchurch thirteenth child of an 18th Century mother , and it features " a horse cavalry ’s top dog , long legs with hooves , two scant front legs , and a at-bat ’s wings , " as perofficial state generator .

If you desire to learn more about the different mythic iterations of the Boogeyman around the universe , you’re able to read the full TheToyZone reportright here .

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