LILIS or LILITH was a bogie-name used by the ancient Jews to unruly
children. The rabbinical writers tell us that Lilith was Adam's wife
before the creation of Eve. She refused to submit to him, and became a
horrible night-spectre, especially hostile to young children.

LUNSFORD, a name employed to frighten children in England. Sir Thomas
Lunsford, governor of the Tower, was a man of most vindictive temper,
and the dread of everyone.

Made children with your tones to run for't,
As bad as Bloody-bones or Lunsford.

S. Butler, _Hudibras_, iii. 2, line 1112, (1678).

NARSES (2 _syl._) was the name used by Assyrian mothers to scare their
children with.

The name of Narses was the formidable sound with which the Assyrian
mothers were accustomed to terrify their infants.--Gibbon, _Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire_, viii. 219 (1776-88).

RAWHEAD and BLOODY-BONES were at one time bogie-names to children.

Servants awe children and keep them in subjection by telling them
of Rawhead and Bloody-bones.--Locke.

RICHARD I., "Coeur de Lion." This name, says Camden (_Remains_), was
employed by the Saracens as a "name of dread and terror."

His tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence
their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his
rider was wont to exclaim, "Dost thou think King Richard is in the
bush?"--Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, xi. 146
(1776-88).

SEBASTIAN (_Don_), a name of terror once used by the Moors.

Nor shall Sebastian's formidable name
Be longer used to still the crying babe.

Dryden, _Don Sebastian_ (1690).

TALBOT (_John_), a name used in France _in terrorem_ to unruly children.

They in France to feare their young children crye, "The Talbot
commeth!"--Hall, _Chronicles_ (1545).

Here (said they) is the terror of the French,
The scarecrow that affrights our children so.

Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act.[TN-27] i. sc. 4 (1589).

Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad,
That with his name the mothers still their babes?

Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act iv. sc. 5 (1589).

TAMERLANE, a name used by the Persians _in terrorem_.

TARQUIN, a name of terror in Roman nurseries.

The nurse to still her child, will tell my story,
And fright her crying babe with Tarquin's name.

Shakespeare, _Rape of Lucrece_ (1594).

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