El Coco

The Coco or Cucuy is a monster of the night very similar to the Babau or Boogeyman and belongs to the culture of the Hispanic countries.

The Coco hides under the beds or in the closets, he kidnaps the naughty children dragging them to a dark place. That’s why parents sometimes invoke the Coco if their children are bad guys.

The creature has a severed skull-like face. The translation of the term Coco with the coconut fruit may derive from the first Spanish explorers who exchanged the first cocci ever seen with skulls.