bogeyman (menacing, ghost-like monster in children’s stories)
çekim: çoğul bichos-papões
köken: From bicho (“beast”) + papão (“glutton”). The legend says the creature would come at night to eat mischievous children, thus originating its name.
a leprechaun-like creature that is friendly to humans and prefers darkness · goblin, bugbear (imaginary evil personality)
çekim: çoğul menninkäiset · tamlayan menninkäisen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mendinkä(inen), borrowed from early Proto-Germanic *menþingō (later *minþingō), compare Icelandic minning (“memory (of the deceased)”).
spooky ghost, haunt, evil spirit, terror · horrific mask · banquet ghost: a skeleton doll with movable joints seated at the banquet table at Roman parties in a fashion that came about in the 1st century AD
çekim: çoğul lārvae · tamlayan lārvae
köken: Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.
Verb-object compound, composed of saca (“to remove”) + mantecas (“fats, lard”) (one story was that the sacamantecas kidnapped children to make an ointment from their fat).