Magic is everywhere. All around the world. You just need to pay attention and you will discover wonderful things. It is in the woods, in the sky. It is in the snowflakes falling down from clouds on winter, but also in the rays of sunlight on summer. Magic makes everybody happy, especially children. But be careful, because magic can also be scary sometimes.

And when I think about magic, I cannot help thinking about fairy tales and legends. They have been used everywhere and by everybody as a tool to transmit knowledge. Through them, children could learn and get to know many kinds of experiences without having to experience all of them in reality. For example, through fairy tales they learn about serious things such as parental abandon, death, loneliness, etc.; but it does not mean that they must be abandoned or lonely in their life. But let’s get deeper in this magical world of fairy tales and legends. Let’s skip the heroes and princesses and focus in the other really important but not so loved characters. Yes, I am talking about MONSTERS. And as I am from Valencia, I will focus in the monsters of the land I come from.

As we said, adults use stories to teach children life lessons, but they can also be used to make them fear. And what better than monsters' stories to make children fear? This is a technique that our grandparents used to apply not that long ago, at least Valencian grandparents. Whenever a child refused to go to sleep, or did not wanted to eat dinner, granny would always mention this creature or monster that would come to get him. “You have to go to sleep or The Man with a bag will come” said the grandmother to her grandsons, and of course, children never believed her but… What if it was true? What if The Man with a bag actually collected children who behave in a bad way? The doubt was always too strong, that the children ended by obeying their relatives.