bogeyman

fictional creature, often used to scare kids
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bogeyman
Francisco Goya · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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bogeyman

Summary

bogeyman ranks in the top 0.81% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,882 views/month, #629 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • bogeyman's image is recorded as Brooklyn Museum - Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco) - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes crop.jpg[2].
  • bogeyman is recorded as male[3].
  • bogeyman's subclass of is recorded as figure used in threatening children[4].
  • bogeyman's Commons category is recorded as Bogeyman[5].
  • bogeyman's said to be the same as is recorded as bogle[6].
  • bogeyman's said to be the same as is recorded as boggart[7].
  • bogeyman's said to be the same as is recorded as boogie man[8].
  • bogeyman's said to be the same as is recorded as Bauchan[9].
  • bogeyman's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_z3q[10].
  • bogeyman's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph126133[11].
  • bogeyman's pseudonym is recorded as Papus[12].
  • bogeyman's worshipped by is recorded as Catalan myths and legends[13].
  • bogeyman's worshipped by is recorded as European folklore[14].
  • bogeyman's Iconclass notation is recorded as 42A59[15].
  • bogeyman's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • bogeyman's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11g4bn2_v8[17].
  • bogeyman's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.fantasticbeings:Бука[18].
  • bogeyman's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09511247-n[19].
  • bogeyman's Personality Database profile ID is recorded as 215300[20].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for bogeyman include The Groke[21], a literary character[22].

Why It Matters

bogeyman ranks in the top 0.81% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,882 views/month, #629 of 77,819).[1] bogeyman has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] bogeyman is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Entities named for bogeyman include The Groke[21], a literary character[22].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . personality-database.com. Retrieved . personality-database.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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