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The myth of the coco originated in Portugal and Galicia. According to the Real Academia Española the word "coco" derives from the Portuguese language, and referred to a ghost with a pumpkin head.[2]The word coco is used in colloquial speech to mean the human head in Portuguese and Spanish.[3] Coco also means skull.[4] The word "cocuruto" in Portuguese means the crown of the head and the highestplace.[5] Gogo in Basque means spirit.[6][7] In Galicia crouca means head,[8] from proto-Celtic *krowkā-,[9]with variant cróca;[10] and either coco or coca mean head.[11] It cognates with Cornish'crogen' meaning skull,[12] and Breton 'krogen ar penn' also meaning skull.[13][14]
In the Galician Lusitanian mythology Crouga is the name of an obscure deity.[15][16] [17]
The ancient Portuguesemetaphor 'to give someone coca' (dar coca a alguém) means: to have one subdued and at the disposal with caresses and cuddles, to make one dizzy, meek with magic potions and magic spells.[18][19][20]
InNorthern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, where there is a large Hispanic population, el cuco is referred to with its anglicized name, the Coco Man.[21] But in Brazilian folklore, the typical monstersung in children rhymes is Cuca, pictured as a female humanoid alligator from Portuguese coca,[22] a dragon.
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The name of the Cuco is widely used by parents in Spain and Latin Americawhen children disobey their parents, do not want to go to sleep, do not want to eat, or go to prohibited places and like to wander. It is not the way the cuco looks but what he does that scares most.The cuco is a child eater and a kidnapper, it immediately devours the child and leaves no trace of her or it takes the child away to a place of no return, but it only does this to disobedient children.The coca is on the look out for child's misbehavior on the top of the roof, the coco takes the shape of any dark shadow and stays watching. They are attracted by a child's disobedience.[23] They...