• HooPhuckenKarez@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    My parents used to threaten me with being sold to the gypsies. I had no idea what they were, but I was moderately afraid of them. One night they broke out Coconut Face, and he chased me up the stairs. I still have sleep issues.

    Coconut Face was a face carved into a coconut husk. My father got it when he was in the navy. It used to scare the shit out of us. One of my cousins still talks about it the better part of 40 years later, and he was never deliberately scared with it.

    I used to have weird dreams about the gypsies too. The details are tough to conjur at the moment.