boo-baggers/boo-beggars

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/7834

boo n A77.48. Boo baggers: All kinds of ugly things coming after you (associated with darkness). Used to frighten us when we were about to do bad things. (Twillingate) Q63B. A77.49. In the home where I was born was a large flue, used in the days of no stoves, open fireplace; the fire would be made under this flue on the hearth, and the smoke going up the flue would cause strings of soot and cobweb. In amongst this would be the Bu Baggars. We were told, if not good, [if we] run away from school, or [are] late for school, or disobey, the Bu Baggars would come in the night and pinch your ears, and we were really afraid. (Bonavista) Q63B. A77.50. The common thing to do was to rap on the wall when the child wasn't looking and say it was the Boo-Bagger coming to get little children who don't go to sleep.92 They had no special place for this figure to live or to come from, but when he was needed he was there. (Pass Island) Q67-644. A77.51. If a child disobeyed, he might be told that the Boo-Baggars would get him if he did not behave. (Beaumont) Q63B. See cited quotation. cont'd on (G) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used This is the reverse of B_4896. It is the sixth in a seven-card series, from cards B_4891 to B_4897.