"raw-head and bloody-bones" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page vii. 169",
          "text": "In his New View of London (1708), Hatton assures us that hackney coachmen in the City were wont to swear \"by Gog and Magog\" [...] Some apprentices, he tells us, were as \"frighted at the names of Gog and Magog as little children are at the terrible sound of Raw-head and Bloody-bones\"[.]",
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        "A malicious bogeyman (or two bogeymen) formerly used to frighten children into good behaviour."
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          "word": "Raw-head and Bloody-bones"
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