On my childhood I was told to respect rules, and as a naughty boy I often didn't, so being a western my mother and most my granny try to frighten fear with the "black man" as bogeyman, which would have came to take me away if I did not go quickly to bed, or if i don't stop crying. All this it sound funny now, but I think it did work back then!Even funnier is that my friend Steven (a Mauritian guy) told me once how his mother used the same trick to scare him, just changing the black with a WHITE evil one!
And today on my way to find the Maha Muni Pagoda I was approach by a local man which was holding with an hand his own daughter and pointing at me with the other one.
Before the kind guy finished to explain how to reach the pagoda his daughter start up to cry loud and she was genuine scared from the white (and full beard) man who not so often cross her neighborhood!
That was very funny for both her parents and myself, but I'm pretty sure they will use this episode as a warning to rise the little poor girl! : )
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