2006-10-09 02:52:51 · 18 answers · asked by brian l 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Bogeyville, Bogeyland.
2006-10-09 02:55:37 · answer #1 · answered by Andy M Thompson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bogey Man resides under the bed.
2006-10-09 03:00:02 · answer #2 · answered by johnjoe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bogeyman, also boogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary ghost-like monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance. He is sometimes equated with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer Albert Fish. The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear — i.e. "Creating Donald Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for good politics but would make for a very lousy strategy at this time."[1]
The most common of childhood fears associated with the bogeyman is that of someone (usually a monster) hiding in one's room (such as behind the door or under the bed). The bogeyman is said to lurk like this and then attack the sleeper. Given the cross-culture similarities of the boogeyman and other stories of "monsters in the dark", some psychologists have even postulated that this may be a representation of an evolutionary throwback that prevented young children from wandering away from the group during the night and thereby placing it at risk from predators.
This one took longer to read others answers than to research it
2006-10-09 03:03:11 · answer #3 · answered by eeaglenest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bogey derives from a decoy, which means fake. This in essence means that a bogey man is a fake person. It is all in your imagination.
2006-10-09 02:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by James 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Peregrine Worsthorne's book "Witchcraft", he gives "Bo" as an old name for the devil (a very old name). I remember my father used to play with his grandchildren by hiding his face from them and then suddenly showing it, saying "Bo get you!" This is undoubtedly something passed on from generation to generation going back centuries. So the bogey man is the devil.
2006-10-09 03:28:16 · answer #5 · answered by byzas566 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Casablanca, opposite Lauren BcCall.
2006-10-09 03:00:07 · answer #6 · answered by rasputin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under the bed
2006-10-09 02:54:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the bits of snot you flick on the floor during the day make up the bogyman at night.
or it could just be a way of scaring the kids.
2006-10-09 02:56:46 · answer #8 · answered by Ian S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hollywood.
2006-10-09 04:01:29 · answer #9 · answered by Silkie1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under the bed or in the wardrobe.
2006-10-09 03:02:28 · answer #10 · answered by Baby # 1 - April 09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋