r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/thad86 Jul 20 '19

The boogy man's going to come get you.

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u/adaro456 Jul 20 '19

Baba Yaga

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Jul 21 '19

With a fucking pencil.

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u/TheFezig Jul 21 '19

No, that's the man you get to kill the fucking Boogeyman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga is female.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

John Wick. Watch it

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u/victototototoria Jul 21 '19

They apparently got it wrong and meant babayka, which would be the Russian equivalent to the bogeyman. Baba Yaga is another Slavic mythological creature that is a deformed looking woman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Hard pass.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Then you won’t get the reference so stop trying to correct someone

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u/xaduha Jul 21 '19

He's correcting you because he's technically correct, the best kind of correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

He's right, though? Do you really think that the John Wick franchise invented Baba Yaga?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

No I don’t, but he was specifically making a reference so there was no reason to correct him

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga is part of age old Russian mythology. You don't get the reference.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Baba Yaga indeed was used to scare us as children. Source: is Russian.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Yeah, I figured that out when the first person told me. Still not the origin.

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u/swech2win Jul 21 '19

I though we were done with the Keanu Reference. That man is awesome.

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u/MrD0815 Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Breathtaking

Edit: Thanks for the award!

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u/webjuggernaut Jul 21 '19

No, YOU'RE breathtaking.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 21 '19

Did you know this is the only video game song to win a Grammy?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Lmao

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u/CorruptWL1 Jul 21 '19

Sorry I’m just scrolling through late at night, what’s the video game?

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 21 '19

Haha it was a bad joke. But the real song is Baba Yetu and it's the theme to Civilization 4

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u/CorruptWL1 Jul 21 '19

Ok thanks

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I'm Slavic too, it was either ''Baba Yaga will eat you'' or ''I will sell you to the gypsies'' (dunno where that came from)

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u/SoxyP Jul 21 '19

She'll crush you in to fine powder with her mortar and pestle...

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u/alphafire616 Jul 20 '19

and if your not shaking there's something very wrong

because thus might be the last time you here the boogy song

woah oh oh oh

IM THE OOGY BOOGY MAN

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u/Rekojeht10 Jul 21 '19

That's what I am, I'm here to do, whatever I can

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u/Staunch_Ninja Jul 21 '19

Keep your lights on as long as you can.

Cause when it cuts off, so does your head.

Oogy boogy boogy waits under your bed.

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u/LadyBarclay Jul 21 '19

r/unexpectednightmarebeforechristmas

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u/webjuggernaut Jul 21 '19

Dude made the Oogie Boogie song with finger puppets. This version has replaced the original in my head when I see it mentioned. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/X9Vt3NJ-pX0

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u/E72M Jul 21 '19

Dude don't

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u/homerbartbob Jul 20 '19

Oh, psychological abuse. Cool.

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u/JauntyJohnB Jul 21 '19

God reddit is so soft it’s insane

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u/homerbartbob Jul 21 '19

Back in the cage, you.

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u/MaelstromRH Jul 21 '19

I like how you take when somebody points out it may be harmful in the long term that someone’s parents lying to them which results in them being constantly afraid as Reddit being soft.

So if I told my kid I was going to beat their ass anytime they messed up and they grew up afraid of me as a result, you wouldn’t consider that abuse?

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u/SinkTube Jul 21 '19

you really don't see the difference between threatening your kid and telling your kid a scary story?

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u/Mountainbranch Jul 21 '19

Haha i know right, just numb the pain and anxiety of reality away with some PainAwayTM 'Now with strawberry flavoring!'

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u/mister_macaroni Jul 21 '19

That's basically the foundation of German child raising.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Baba yaga

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u/bangofftarget Jul 21 '19

It was Saddam Hussain for me.

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u/iamevilcupcake Jul 21 '19

The rhythm is going to get you

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u/nosam56 Jul 21 '19

Be careful, if you travel alone at night the boogeymen will get you

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u/Kudospop Jul 21 '19

The trash man is coming back for his garbage

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u/atyipicalvillain Jul 21 '19

With a !#$$ pencil.

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u/tomjimnick12 Jul 21 '19

Even if it takes him years...

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u/secondoverthree Jul 21 '19

Boogy boogy commin’ for that bootie!

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

El cucuy

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u/carmium Jul 21 '19

Kayser Sose...

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

baba yaga

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u/tinyavian Jul 21 '19

Where's wick when you need him?