Mr Miacca is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales.
Tommy was sometimes bad, and when he was, he would go out into the street though his mother warned him that Mr Miacca would catch him.
Tommy said his mother was making some, and he would run and see if she would give some.
He still could not be good, and Mr. Miacca caught him again, and this time put him under the couch and watched the pot to boil himself.
Mr. Miacca grabbed it and threw it in the pot, and Tommy ran off, because it had been the couch leg.