Bloody Bones is a bogeyman figure in English and North American folklore whose first written appearance is approximately 1548. As with all bogeymen the figure has been used to frighten children into proper deportment.

2008年7月8日 · “Tommy Rawhead” and “Bloody Bones” were two boogeymen who would kidnap children who misbehaved. At first, they haunted wells, ponds and other bodies of water, but then they moved inside the house and lived under sinks and drains.

Bloody Bones, often used in conjunction with his friend Rawhead, is a boogeyman of British folklore. Through the years, however, the story of Rawhead and Bloody Bones spread to North America and was figuratively adopted by the South.

2025年3月19日 · One of the most popular of these tells of two terrifying creatures sometimes imagined as parts of the same monster. One is a skull stripped of skin and liable to bite called “Raw head” and the other its equally terrifying companion, a kind of dancing headless skeleton called “Bloody Bones.”

2020年10月14日 · It’s not hard to see why kids of any era would be terrified by bloody bones, but where did that term ‘rawhead’ come from? And why did it haunt children of centuries past? Raw-head, says the Oxford English Dictionary, first makes an appearance in c. 1564, along with his friend Bloody-bones.

2022年10月20日 · True to his name, Bloody Bones is bloody. He is said to be a humanoid monster with a scalped head and blood running along his body. He is usually seated and crouched on top of a pile of bloody bones. If he catches you peeking, you’ll never be seen again. Because he’ll eat you.

Northern European folklore's Bloody Bones, a chilling, moral guide, lurks in dark spaces, embodying cautionary tales of behavior and ethics.

2009年6月4日 · Bloody Bones is a boogeyman feared by children. According to Scott Andrew Hutchins, Bloody Bones comes from Ireland and is sometimes called Rawhead and Bloody-Bones, Tommy Rawhead, or Rawhead. Though the stories originated in Ireland, they have spread through the UK and North America, and the stories maintain popularity in the American south.

Bloody Bones is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton, the fifth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. [1]

Bloody Bones is a bogeyman figure in English and North American folklore whose first written appearance is approximately 1548. As with all bogeymen the figure has been used to frighten children into proper deportment.