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Rawhead and Bloody Bones is a boogie man of English legend and folktales. He is sometimes called simply Rawhead, or Tommy Rawhead, or even Old Bones. The stories are thought to have originated in Ireland, but they have spread throughout the UK, and even into American folktales.

In some cases, like in tales from around Yorkshire, he is a water demon who lies in wait to pull children down into deep ponds and marl-pits. In more modern versions, he lives in dark cupboards and pulls naughty children down the drain pipes. He sometimes will turn naughty children into pieces of trash or spots of jam which are inadvertently wiped up or thrown away.

He is said to have a hunching form, like a rock, and a body covered with matted hair. In some versions the top of his head has no skin, only a bare, bloody skull. He lives in dark places, like basements, or under the stairs, or in the cabnets under the sink.
He has make the leap to America, where his story has changed. Here is an example of a tale about Raw Head and Bloody Bones from the Missouri Ozarks that bears little resemblace to the original European stories.

Found in Fiction

Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 12, Faith - The episode startes with Sam and Dean in the basement of an old house looking for two kidnapped children. They refer to the monster they are hunting as a rawhead. The children are found in a cupbard and Sam takes them to safety. Dean is attacked by the rawhead, which is a hilking, shaggy, humanoid creature with matted hair and a squashed, almost piglike nose. He uses a taser on the creature to kill it, but when the electrical charge travels throught the water puddle they are both standing in Dean ends up in the hospital.

Anita Blake: Bloody Bones - Anita travels to Branson, Missouri to check a peice of land for a developer. Graves have been found on the land, the ownership of which is being disputed. Anita's job is to determine if the occupants of the graveyard belong to the Bouvier family or not. The Bouviers claim to own the land, and thye have a dark secret. The dead in the graveyard are being used as an anchor point for a spell that holds an ancient and very powerful faerie spirit - Rawhead and Bloody Bones - trapped in the earth. If the graves are disturbed, Bloody Bones will escape and will return to preying on children.