Where did the expression (the boogie man come from) ?

Question

sound's like a big green monster...lol

Answer 1

Dont you just hate it when someone copies and pastes from Wikipedia? It would be better if someone said they just didn't know.

So to answer your question, I don't know where the actual term came from. However, I would be willing to bet it was a mean ol' dad on a camping trip with his son(s). It is something like a snipe or snipe hunting. A non existant figment of a childs imagination that was placed there by a meanie adult. LOL.

So sleep tight tonight, and just know the boogie man is down the snipe holes. Lol.

Answer 2

The bogeyman, 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.

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, in the closet, or under the bed). The bogeyman is said to lurk like this and then attack the sleeper. Stories of the Bogeyman vary by region. In some regions the Bogeyman is male, in others female. In some Midwestern states the Bogeyman does not enter bedrooms but instead scratches on the windows. It is said that if you have a wart the bogeyman may have given it to you.[1] . 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 them at risk from predators.[citation needed]

Sometimes parents will, as a way of controlling their children, encourage belief in a bogeyman that only preys on children who misbehave. Such bogeymen may be said to target a specific mischief — for instance, a bogeyman that persecutes children who suck their thumbs — or just general misbehaviour.

Popular portrayals of Bogeymen include Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, where they lived unsurprisingly in Bogeyland and Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman. The latter relies on the children's slang word bogey meaning dried nasal mucus, a substance these particular bogeymen are particularly fond of. The Bogeyman was one of the few recurring villians in the successful 1980's children's cartoon series The Real Ghostbusters; these episodes are regarded as the series' most popular. More contemporary is the Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc., which involves an entire economy that dictates the operations of the Monsters that scare children at night. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, the Bogeyman is called Oogie Boogie, and he is an animated sack of bugs who enjoys gambling. Detroit rap group Insane Clown Posse also released a song about the Bogeyman called "Boogie Woogie Wu" on their 1997 album The Great Milenko