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Kuebiko is the main name for this kami. There is also an alternate name of Yamada no sohodo (山田之曾富騰), mentioned in the Kojiki.. Kuebiko comes from kueru (), an archaic verb meaning "to break down; to become shabby and disordered", plus hiko (), an old epithet for "boy, young man", in turn from hi ko (日 子), literally "sun child".
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin that is often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. [ 1 ]
The Scarecrow appears in many of the later books, including The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) and Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Royal Book of Oz (1921), in which he researches his ancestry. He was played by Ray Bolger in the 1939 movie. That actor also played the Scarecrow's Kansan counterpart, Hunk, who was one of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's three ...
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The "scarecrow" tries to prove to Dorothy that he does have a brain and writes her a poem. The Scarecrow is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The Scarecrow is featured more prominently in Son of a Witch, Maguire's sequel to Wicked.
The word bogeyman, used to describe a monster in English, may have derived from Middle English bugge or bogge, which means 'frightening specter', 'terror', or 'scarecrow'. It relates to boggart, bugbear (from bug, meaning 'goblin' or 'scarecrow' and bear) an imaginary demon in the form of a bear that ate small children. It was also used to mean ...
Also used in the term Hymietown, a nickname for Brooklyn, New York, and as a first name. [57] Ikey, Ike United States: Jews Derived from Isaac, an important figure in Judaism and common Hebrew given name. [58] Itzig Nazi Germany: Jews From Yiddish איציק (itsik), a variant or pet form of the name Isaak (alternatively Isaac). [59] Jewboy ...