What is the boogeyman?

Question

the real boogey man not the WWE one where did the legend come from, when did it come from, and why the name boogie man? (cool name) but why?

Answer 1

Yup, after he eats the kids he enjoys a nice relaxing disco dancing night!

Answer 2

i wouldn't worry about it cuz he doesn't exist

Answer 3

The worst movie ever D:

lol, sorry. i don't have much background on that..

but the story pretty much goes as a childhood monster that lives in your closet or under your bed and it comes out at night to.. GET'CHA

Answer 4

Well the boogieman is a monster who is in a child's closet or under there bed and when the child sleep he snatches and eats them. Don't no about the name though maybe he likes to boogie (dance) LOL.

Answer 5

To me the boogieman is a pedophile who acts all normal while he lives next door while all the parents say he is the nicest man they have ever met..There are many monsters whgo look like you and i now days.

Answer 6

According to an online etymological dictionary, the word dates to the 16th Century, wherein the word was coined in English using the Scottish Gaelic root "bogle," meaning "ghost."

The legend itself pops up in countless socities, past and present. In Azerbaijan, you need to watch out for the dreaded Khokhan. In Greece, the Baboulas is hiding under your bed. In Japan, the Namahage demons will strike down lazy, disobedient children.

Parents the world over have used these metaphors to inspire obedience in their misbehaving children; however, some believe that there may be more to it than that. As widespread as the "bogeyman" metaphor is among disparate cultures, what is the impetus for parents choosing THIS means of dealing with misbehaving children? Could it be that they themselves remember being afraid of the shadows when they were children? A very commonly reported phenomenon is the "shadow people" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_peop... Details of such reports are uncannily similar the world over: black humanoid silhouettes seen out of the corner of one's eye, which vanish as one looks straight at them. Do such similarities in shadow people accounts indicate that these apparitions are real? Actually, the simplest explanation is often the correct one. There is a neurological phenomenon which we all share called "pareidolia." Our brains are basically extremely complex pattern recognition machines. When we see an amorphous play of light and shadow out of the corner of our eyes, our brain attempts to match what we see with patterns it is already familiar with. Being social creatures, we humans have a neurological disposition to match any remotely humanoid-looking amorphous shape to the shape of a human figure in our minds, and voila!---shadow people. The experience is made all the more memorable when it causes an adrenaline rush.

Finally, why the fear of the dark? The tendency for humans to be afraid of the dark reaches back into our evolutionary history to the primitive limbic system of our brains---the seat of instinct---which, in this case, corresponds to the natural fear of darkness, shadow, and things that go bump in the night. From the perspective of evolution, it's easy to see how these natural fears served to help us survive: because very often things that went bump in the night, things that dwelled in the shadows, were predators who would kill and eat us, given the chance.

Well, that's my two cents. :-)

Answer 7

Shut your lights off at night then try to keep your eyes open...then maybe the boogeyman might show its ugly face.

Answer 8

It's a myth to scare children with so they behave and obedient.

Answer 9

The boogie man is a thoughtform of pure fear and terror.  It is technically no more evil than a black hole or other inanimate catastrophe, but going nar him is certainly as dangerous.  He may have once been naught but a nursery bogie to frighten children into good behavior, but through belief in the thought form, he's become more powerful than any nursery bogie now.  His name, obviously, comes from the same root of bogies, bogles, bugaboos, etc. . .

Answer 10

The boogie man is whomever you empower it to be!

So don't empower IT!!!