期刊名称：Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares
印刷版ISSN：1988-8457
出版年度：2015
卷号：70
期号：2
页码：547-568
语种：Spanish
出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Research into bogeymen conducted in Andalusia in Spain reveals that children have not only been afraid of the Sacamantecas [Fat-extractor], the Hombre del saco [Sack Man] and other famous fictional characters. Their progenitors have also used real individuals to scare them into obedience. The social production of bogeymen operates through stereotypical categorization of marginalized individuals that fall into ‘abnormality’ archetypes: the drunkard, the drug addict, the criminal, the madman, the witch and the gypsy, but also the cripple, the beggar, the vagabond and even the peddler. Analysing the memories of those who were children between the 1930s and the end of the 20th century, this paper connects discourse on bogeymen with the symbolic universe regarding the categories of ‘abnormal’ individuals that appear in legends, stories, superstitions, false rumours and other narratives, spanning the divide between fiction and reality. In the process, we seek to understand the ambivalent images constructed around those who are considered anomalous, deviant, strange, monstrous, perverted and dangerous, and therefore censurable and fearsome, but who also are familiar and live on the sidelines of our daily lives, engendering not only rejection, but also curiosity and fascination.
