| Summary: | boo n A77.56. .Boo-baggers: men used to frighten children by telling them to be good or else the boo- baggers will have them. (Summerford) Q3B. A77.57. A threat very often used was that if you didn't behave the Boo-baggers.would come and take you away. Threats such as these were often used when children failed to behave themselves, or would not want to come in the house after dark, or they wouldn't go to sleep etc. (Rock Harbour) Q67-539. A77.58. Boo-bagger - a man who takes bad children and carries them away in a bag. (Tizzard's Harbour) Q63B. A77.59. The most widely used, however, was the boo- bagger. He was pictured as a huge black man who carried away children. This was used seriously to make children come in from out of doors. We, as children, were afraid of this threat because we thought for sure that we would be carried away by the boo-bagger if we did not obey. (English Harbour and Ramea) Q67-379. See cited quotation. (BOO_BAGGER/BOO-BEGGER - THE END) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used This is the reverse of B_4897. It is the last in a seven-card series, from cards B_4891 to B_4897.
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