useless-catalanfacts:beautiful-basque-country:mapsontheweb:What’s the Boogeyman called in your
useless-catalanfacts:beautiful-basque-country:mapsontheweb:What’s the Boogeyman called in your country?by @Atlasova_world Not a chance that El Coco means “the dark one”.One quick Google search and you’ll discover that the coconut was called coco in Spanish because it had 3 holes (like 2 eyes and a mouth), just like the head of the ghostly coco, that already existed.It seems to be an expressive term that has appeared in many different languages at the same time, generally referred to a spherical object. This way, in Ancient Greek exists the word kókkos, «grain» […] Italian còcco or cucco («egg»), French coque («eggshell»).In Spanish, coco is also the colloquial word for head. It was interesting to see Portugal says “Papão”! Here in Catalonia we say “Papu” (or in some areas “Papus”).The other most common one is “l'home del sac” (the man with the sack).(We talked about the different boogeymen in different areas of the Catalan Countries in this previous post) -- source link