The term "comprachico" is very uncommonly used in modern English except in reference or allusion to the antiquated folklore, but similar stories do exist in the English speaking world. For instance, a tale circulating since at least the 1980s tells of a Japanese bride who disappears during her honeymoon in Europe; years later her husband discovers she has been abducted, mutilated, and forced to work in a freak show. The shock documentary "Mondo Cane" (1962) shows apparently actual criminals arrested for crippling children to be used as beggars. The novel "Q & A" (2005) and its film adaptation "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008) portrays a gang that blinds children to create beggars.