Shaggy Peter

Global Bogeyman story. "If you suck your thumbs, SHAGGY PETER WILL CUT THEM OFF", "if you don't eat your food, SHAGGY PETER WILL GIVE YOU A WASTING DISEASE".

''The great tall tailor always comes To little boys who suck their thumbs; And ere they dream what he's about, He takes his great sharp scissors out, And cuts their thumbs clean off—and then, You know, they never grow again."''