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<blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7972859" data-attributes="member: 7015476"><p>If i REALLY stretch the envelope i could say bogey men and some trolls are reminiscent of orcs going back further than 1600s. But, and i think this lends to your point, those are never ever the main interpretations of these entities. Also they never form large roving bands. I think orcs are partially INSPIRED by things that go back a ways, but orcs themselves dont go back much further than the name "orc".</p><p></p><p>Boogeymen are typically much closer to ogres.</p><p></p><p>Trolls are...trolls. Some times they are a little similar to something else.</p><p></p><p>Side note:</p><p></p><p>There is a really weird theory that boogeymen may actually have been the result of a distant and degraded cultural backwater of a memory of isolated denosovans or denosovan hybrids living on the outskirts of early european society. I think there could be some merit to that. Though still a bit unlikely.</p><p></p><p>(Denosovan instead of neanderthal mostly due to size and the prolifically common reference to a weirdly shaped nose and overly large jaw. Both qualities neanderthal likely had in slight measure. Not enough to comment on as frequently as is mentioned in boogeyman legends. Denosovan may have had these feature just enough larger and weirder to be mentioned so commonly.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Son of the Serpent, post: 7972859, member: 7015476"] If i REALLY stretch the envelope i could say bogey men and some trolls are reminiscent of orcs going back further than 1600s. But, and i think this lends to your point, those are never ever the main interpretations of these entities. Also they never form large roving bands. I think orcs are partially INSPIRED by things that go back a ways, but orcs themselves dont go back much further than the name "orc". Boogeymen are typically much closer to ogres. Trolls are...trolls. Some times they are a little similar to something else. Side note: There is a really weird theory that boogeymen may actually have been the result of a distant and degraded cultural backwater of a memory of isolated denosovans or denosovan hybrids living on the outskirts of early european society. I think there could be some merit to that. Though still a bit unlikely. (Denosovan instead of neanderthal mostly due to size and the prolifically common reference to a weirdly shaped nose and overly large jaw. Both qualities neanderthal likely had in slight measure. Not enough to comment on as frequently as is mentioned in boogeyman legends. Denosovan may have had these feature just enough larger and weirder to be mentioned so commonly.) [/QUOTE]
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