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Comprachicos

Needs fact-checking. Rhobite 20:25, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Is this an urban legend? I've come across the word in Ayn Rand, but she only uses it as a metaphor. There's nothing really about this in Leslie Fiedler's Monsters that I recall. Some kind of medical evidence or closer sources would be helpful. Smerdis of Tlön 18:08, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A quick google search finds the mention of the term in "The Man Who Laughs". This link [1] looks remarkably like our text, though (at least the first few words are identical -- no time to read more closely) Mpolo 19:08, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

I spent some time paging through the Google links. Just about everything seems to relate either to the Victor Hugo story, Ayn Rand's political metaphor, or an Atomic Bitchwax song "Comprachico Boogie." Of course, Google is not the universe, but my impression is that this was made up for a scary story. Smerdis of Tlön 03:43, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)