boo-bagger/boo-beggar

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/12267

boo n when it is necessary to give the children some disciplinary action. The children are really frightened, because at the age when this means of discipline is employed, the child's imagin- ation is at its peak, and nothing seems imposs- ible, especially if grown-ups say it's true. When I was just little, my sister [who] was about ten years older than me, used to frighten me just about silly.maybe we'd go upstairs together in the dark. She'd say in a scary way, a low mysterious tone: "The Boo-bagger might be around." She made me feel afraid he would hear me if I was there. You had to be quiet. She'd make a weird little scraping noise or some other unusual sound, and maybe she'd suddenly say, "Boo!" loudly, and this would really scare me, but this was just a game.89 (Twillingate) Q67-207. (PTO) _____________________________________________ 89Although there is little evidence in this example of control- ling behaviour, it illustrates how closely the children's scary games parallel the threats used by adults. Here an older child is using the same verbal devices, and the young child is being encouraged to believe in the figure, and even to keep quiet, although the situational context is different from that normally found in the adult threats. CARD (C) (card (c) cont'd) p. 285 (PTO) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used See B_13499 for reverse. This is the third in a seven-card series, from cards B_4891 to B_4897.