Edited sentence: Another theory is that the term came from 17th century England, which at the time was plagued by slave traders raiding the coasts of Devon and Cornwall by Barbary pirates: one of the pirates' home ports was Boujaya (French Bougie) in present-day Algeria.Hence the phrase 'The Boogey man will get you'.However, etymologists disagree with this because words relating to bogeyman were in common use centuries before European colonization of Southeast Asia and it is therefore unlikely that the Bugis would have been commonly known to westerners during that time.In Southeast Asia the term is commonly accepted to refer to Bugis  or Buganese  pirates, ruthless seafarers of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia's third largest island.It is popularly believed that this resulted in the European sailors bringing their fear of the "bugi men" back to their home countries.These pirates often plagued early English or Dutch trading ships, namely those of the British East India Company or  Dutch East India Company