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Rawhead and Bloody-Bones

A bogie at one time the terror of children.

“Servants awe children and keep them in subjection by telling them of Rawhead and Bloody-bones.” —Locke.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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