| Summary: | boo n A84.30. Both to young and old the Bogie man denoted some fearsome creature who grabbed and punished naughty children after dark. (St. John's) Q67-730. A84.31. In my pre-school years my parents would very often threaten me so that I would obey them immediately. They said that they would lock me in the attic of our home which was very old. We lived.here in St. John's in a three storey house. I knew that the attic was very dark and my older sister used tot ell me that the bogey man lived up there. She said that the bogey man feasted only on bad boys at mealtimes. Thus every mealtime I was as good as gold, doing all sorts of helpful jobs for my mother. Of course my parents were not serious about putting me in the attic but all the same I took them very seriously because at night I was able to hear noises above my bedroom. These noises, as I found out later, were only the running of mice in the attic. Although this threat of my parents' was not used with extreme frequency, it had tremendous results as myfuture behaviour showed. The main reasons for these threats were to get me to do what I was told, especially to eat my dinner. Another reason was to make me go to bed at eight o'clock sharp. (St. John's) Q64A. Used I and Sup Used I 4 Not used This is the reverse of B_4906. It is the third in the four-card series, from B_4904 to B_4907.
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