El Coco

When you are a child in Spain, and you don't want to go to bed and sleep but your parents do, they tell you a story about "El Coco". El Coco is somebody, who comes from somewhere, and comes to visit your room every night to check if you are sleeping or not. What El Coco is supposed to do if he sees you are not sleeping is, basically, eat you!!

This kind of story is a song, a little one, that parents sing to their children before going to bed.