#bogeyman

• Baba-Coaja — A minor supernatural character from Romanian popular demonology, found in regional superstitions and folkloric bogeyman tales, often used to discipline disobedient children. Depicted as a hideous, solitary, and harsh old woman (the name structurally implying dry, wrinkled skin or a rigid crust), this mythological figure acts as a punitive night spirit, similar to other entities like Baba-Cloandă or the forest mother, embodying ancestral fears of darkness and the unknown.
• Bogeyman — An imaginary masculine character from Romanian popular mythology, depicted as an ugly specter, a scarecrow, or a malevolent spirit hiding in the dark, traditionally used by parents as a bogeyman to discipline disobedient children; by extension, it denotes an ugly, frightening, or physically repulsive person.