{"id":1383,"date":"2010-09-20T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2010-09-20T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:03:01","slug":"the-bogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-bogeyman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bogeyman, en espa\u00f1ol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were kids we used to believe in the Bogeman, that legendary monster that comes to eat children who don&#8217;t want to go to sleep or who are crying for no reason. Here are some very common &#8220;lullabies&#8221; containing the bogeyman in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><em>Duerme ni\u00f1o, duerme,<\/em> (Sleep, kid, sleep)<br \/>\n<em>duerme, que viene el coco,<\/em> (Sleep because here comes the bogeyman)<br \/>\n<em>y se lleva a los ni\u00f1os<\/em> (who takes kids away)<br \/>\n<em>que duermen poco.<\/em> (the ones who sleep little.)<\/p>\n<p><em>A dormir, a callar<\/em> (Let&#8217;s go to sleep, let&#8217;s be quiet)<br \/>\n<em>Mira, que viene el coco<\/em> (Look, here comes the bogeyman)<br \/>\n<em>y te va a llevar.<\/em> (and he&#8217;s going to take you away)<\/p>\n<p><em>Calla, ni\u00f1o; calla, ni\u00f1o<\/em> (Shush, kid; shush, kid)<br \/>\n<em>mira que viene el Pap\u00f3n,<\/em> (look, here comes the bogeyman)<br \/>\n<em>y que viene preguntando<\/em> (and he&#8217;s asking)<br \/>\n<em>d\u00f3nde est\u00e1 el ni\u00f1o llor\u00f3n<\/em> (where the crying kid is)<\/p>\n<p>The bogeyman can be called <em>el coco, el hombre del saco<\/em> (the sack man), <em>el ropavejero<\/em> (the man with old clothes), <em>el sacamantecas <\/em>(who was a Spanish serial killer), <em>el robachicos<\/em> (the kid thief). Here are some more regional names: <em>El Tio Camu\u00f1as<\/em> (Spain), <em>El Sombrer\u00f3n<\/em> (Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala), <em>El Caragot<\/em> (Catalonia), <em>La Bruja Pirula <\/em>(all over Latin America), <em>La T\u00eda Tragant\u00eda<\/em> (\u00dabeda, Ja\u00e9n, Spain) and <em>La Mano Peluda<\/em> (Mexico and Colombia).<\/p>\n<p>And now let&#8217;s have some fun with the first episode of Mexican hit TV series El Chavo del Ocho with its first episode, El Ropavejero. <em>Nos vemos prontito.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Don ramon Rpavejero - 1975 - Parte 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cf0VFIXEabQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were kids we used to believe in the Bogeman, that legendary monster that comes to eat children who don&#8217;t want to go to sleep or who are crying for no reason. Here are some very common &#8220;lullabies&#8221; containing the bogeyman in Spanish. Duerme ni\u00f1o, duerme, (Sleep, kid, sleep) duerme, que viene el coco&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-bogeyman\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11476,358362],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-fiction","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}