Que viene el Coco y te comerá."
(sleep my child, sleep now...
or else the bogeyman will come and will eat you.)
In every culture, there is that mythological monster that gives you the feeling that there is something out there just waiting to get you.
How many of us can ever forget that frighting warning to behave good or else at night the monster under our bed would come to get us?
El cucuy (known in different regions as Coco, Cuco, Coca, or Cuca), for example, is the Spanish speaking countries equivelant to the boogie man.
El Cucuy is a mythical ghost monster with taunting pointed teeth and razor-sharp claws, that hides in closets or under beds and likes to eat misbehaving children, the ones who fail to obey authority.
In Spain and Latin America, parents and grandparents sometimes invoke El Cucuy as a way of discouraging their children from misbehaving; they sing lullabies or tell rhymes warning their children that if they don't obey their parents, el Cucuy will come and get them and then eat them.
No matter how old we are the fear is universal... once night falls, that's when the monster creatures come out!
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