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    What is the story behind Quebec's "7 o'clock man"?

    Question #69308. Asked by zbeckabee. (Aug 04 06 7:40 PM)


    peasypod

    		"The Bonhomme Sept-Heures (7 o'clock man) is said to visit houses around 7 o'clock to take misbehaving children who will not go to bed back to his cave where he feasts on them."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman


    Aug 04 06, 7:43 PM
    CaroSun

    		7 o'clock men for us in Quebec is the equivalent of Boogeyman for you!

    Aug 04 06, 7:51 PM
    cromulence

    		Apparently, the term comes from the English word "bone-setter" which was francicized into "bonhomme sept-heures".

    Feb 25 07, 10:27 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Some etymologies agree, but others see it as not being of English origin - even linking it to similar forms in Brittany.
    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonhomme_sept-heures

    Feb 26 07, 12:43 PM

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