Note {84-1} — Front matter (continued 2)
Reading edition
Page 84.—1.{84-1} Carlanco, bugbear. In a footnote (Cuadros de Costumbres, Vol. II, Madrid, 1902, page 216) Fernán Caballero says: «El Carlanco pertenece á la familia de los pavorosos y fantásticos monstruos del Cancón, del Bu y del Coco.» Carlanco is not given in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, but cancón, bu and coco are given and are defined as "an imaginary phantom with which one frightens children". In English one says "bugaboo", and sometimes "boo" to frighten children.