kuku'i ghost

[rwd0002 at unt.edu]

Quoting "Alan H. Hartley" <ahartley at d.umn.edu>:

> Mark-Awakuni Swetland wrote:
> 
> > Hmm... the image of a firefly flickering in the night seems to suggest a
> > possible connection to the image of a ghost, enit?
> 
> Yup--pretty neat!
> 


In Ruben Cobos, A dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish 
(2003), I find:  cucuy m. [fr. Mex. Sp. coco, bogeyman, and !Uy!, an expression 
denoting fright] bogeyman.

The etymology seems fanciful to me.

Willem