La Leyenda del Coco

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This third season of Simple Stories in Spanish is focusing on legends. Listener discretion is advised for this episode. El Coco, el Cuco y el Cucuy are the Spanish equivalent of the Bogeyman. Parents tell stories of this creature to scare their children into behaving. But el coco is not just a myth. This character is based in a very real, very disturbing event from Spain in the early 1900s. I hope you enjoy today’s exploration of the origin of “el coco”. This legend is told in the present, pa...

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0:00.0	Ola, and bienvenidos is the legend of simple stories in Spanish.
0:06.0	El Coco, the cucko and the cuckooi, are the Spanish equivalent of the bogeyman.
0:13.0	Parents tell stories of this creature to scare their children into behaving.
0:18.0	But El Coco is not just a myth. This character is based on a very real, very disturbing event from Spain in the early 1900s.
0:32.0	I hope you enjoy today's exploration of the origin of
0:35.9	El Kogo. listener discretion is advised.
0:41.6	D'Weerte Nino,
0:45.0	Dwer met a y'a,
0:48.0	that vigne the cocoa and he's comerra. This is the palabras of a
0:55.0	conción that madres
0:59.0	can't on his nignos.
1:02.0	But no is a
1:03.7	a case on felis. The can't is a record that the
1:06.0	canion is a record that the nignos necessary to be
1:11.0	goodos.
1:12.0	Or van to be victims of cocoa.
1:18.0	When a union in Spain,
1:20.0	not come his vegetales,
1:22.0	your mother-lady say,
1:24.0	how he was vegetals,
1:26.0	or the cocoa-bendrar,
1:28.0	and was comer-r-a.
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