The more vicious Bogeyman is said to steal the children at night, and even eat them. The large majority of Bogeymen are there to just frighten children with punishments, and not actually inflict much damage. They all relate in the same way, being that they all exist to teach young children lessons. When looking at the personality traits of the Bogeymen, they are most easily divided into three categories the kind that punishes misbehaved children, the kind that are more prone to violence, and the kind that protect the innocent. Some are even described to have certain animal features such as horns, hooves, and bug like appearances. Along with that, the majority of Bogeymen are of the spirit variety, while the minority are demons, witches, and other legendary creatures.

Many of the Bogeymen are depicted as having claws, talons, and sharp teeth. While the description of the Bogeyman differs on a cultural level, there are often some shared similarities to the creatures. The word is known in Indo-European languages as puck ( English), bogle ( Scots), pooka or pookha ( Irish), pwca, bwga or bwgan ( Welsh), bucca ( Cornish), buse or busemann ( Norwegian), puki ( Old Norse), bГёhmand or bussemand ( Danish), bГ»zeman ( Western Frisian), boeman ( Dutch), Butzemann ( German), bГІcan, pГєca, bogu ( Slavonic), buka or babay/babayka ( Russian, Р±СѓРєР°), bauk ( Serbian), bubulis ( Latvian), baubas ( Lithuanian), bobo ( Polish), bubГЎk ( Czech), bubГЎk ( Slovak), bebok ( Silesian), papГЈo ( Portuguese), babulas ( Greek, ОјПЂО±ОјПЂОїПЌО»О±П‚), bua ( Georgian, бѓ‘бѓЈбѓђ), babau ( Italian), Р±Р°Р±Р°Р№ ( Ukrainian), baubau ( Romanian), and papu ( Catalan). The word bugaboo, with a similar pair of meanings, may have arisen as an alteration of bugbear. It was also used to mean a general object of dread. It relates to bugbear, from bug, meaning goblin or scarecrow, and bear, an imaginary demon in the form of a bear that ate small children.

It may derive from the Middle English bogge or bugge, meaning a terror or scarecrow. The word bogey originated in the mid-19th century, originally as a quasi-proper name for the devil.

1.1 Physical description and personality.

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