Which seems to be the being's lasting impression.Īs the Cuban woman in The Outsider explains, "All the old cultures have the bad habit of turning truth into fairytales. Of course, there's also the children-eating part. In the Spanish-speaking world, that being is known as "El Cuco." By some descriptions, El Cuco acts as a kind of motherly ally, disciplining kids for misbehavior. In all cultures, the woman suggests, there exists such a punishing being. "When you were a child, who were you told would come for you if you misbehaved, if you didn't go to sleep?" the woman asks. The lullaby's singer is a a Cuban woman who Holly meets while visiting a New York prison. Early rhymes about El Cuco contain a similar line, including a children's bedtime lullaby sung during the episode: The name of the episode, "Que Viene El Coco," or "El Coco comes," is also the title of a 1799 painting by Goya, depicting a hooded figure, El Coco, approaching a woman and two screaming children. In a typically terrifying Stephen King fashion, The Outsider, moving away from scientific explanation, introduced 'El Cuco,' a shape-shifting monster and force of pure, indiscriminate evil that makes the clown from It seem, well, like a clown. Here's what the myth might mean for the series.The myth has Spanish origins-El Cuco is similar to the boogeyman.HBO's The Outsider introduced "El Cuco" (sometimes "El Coco") in episode 4.
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