Shlimazel

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Shlimazel was a bogeyman encountered in Feet of Clay when he tried to detain Angua and Cheery Littlebottom in the Undead bar Biers. She flipped a fluffy blanket over his head, causing him extreme existential uncertainty - he didn't know whether or not he existed. It is well known that children hide their heads under the blanket to escape from fear, so to hide the fear's head under a blanket is a very effective way of causing it to stop being frightening.

Shlimazel briefly tries to annoy Susan Sto Helit in Hogfather, but is repelled by her "Death Voice".

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Shlimazel, apropriately enough, is a Roundworld Yiddish word meaning "a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything".