Could you tell us more about the boogeyman camel?
Why of course! The camel with a sack or baeer bu kharitah (بعير بو خريطة) is described in detail in Al Musallam (2017) Emirati Superstitious Creatures, and I am eternally thankful for an ABC reader for providing that source!
The camel with a sack appears during siesta time and catches Emirati children who are foolishly playing outside at that time. It traps them in its sack, either white (saliva) or red (the fleshy sack that camels extrude).
It carries the children around and releases them somewhere else after a period of time. They can be heard crying inside the sack at night. When they are released, it is often far away, and they forget their parents, so they cannot return home and they never stop crying.
The best way to escape it is to climb to the top of a palm tree, but then you face the problem of getting back down.
