Flannel Foot a Scottish Bogeyman a children’s book about a robber who terrorized the little mining village of The Plean.
The true story of our Bogeyman, that frightened the people of the wee mining village and how the folk fae The Plean, turned terror into love! Read the story which chased many a small child up to bed, in the village, a creature or was it a person, who sneaked into houses stealing coins and food…
“It’s no fear ae the bogeyman, the ghillie dhu, or auld nick
That has the laddies n lassies ae The Plean feeling sick
Oor monsters no green, wan eyed, or hairy
Oor monster wis real, so it’s awfie scary….”
Listen to Mandy read you the story in Scots! Flannel Foot a Scottish Bogeyman!
Flannelfoot himself really did exist, but not in my time as a wee lassie, but when my mum was around 15 or 16 years old (Around 1959 or 1960). Nobody locked their doors in The Plean and things started to go missing from peoples houses. My mum clearly remembers a friends house being broken into and, at the time, the family had a big alsation dog. Despite this, Flannelfoot, as the robber was soon nicknamed, managed to steal from the home undetected. My mum has no memory of anyone ever being caught, perhaps it was just someone who hit on hard times and needed to feed their family and when times picked up again for them, they stopped.