Editing Sandman (section)

==Literature==
[[File:Vilhelm Pedersen, OLE LUKØJE, ubt.jpeg|thumb|[[Vilhelm Pedersen]] representation for the fairy tale "[[Ole Lukøje]]" by [[Hans Christian Andersen]].]]
[[File:Vilhelm Pedersen, 0k-06, ubt.jpeg|thumb|Vilhelm Pedersen depiction of "Ole Lukøje".]]
[[File:Klaas Vaak Bosrijk Efteling.JPG|thumb|Klaas Vaak entertainer in Themepark Efteling.]]

[[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] (1776–1822) wrote a short story in 1816 titled ''[[The Sandman (short story)|Der Sandmann]]'', which showed how sinister such a character could be made. According to the protagonist's nurse, he threw sand in the eyes of children who would not go to sleep, with the result of those eyes falling out and being collected by the Sandman, who then takes the eyes to his iron nest on the Moon and uses them to feed his children. The protagonist of the story grows to associate this nightmarish creature with the genuinely sinister figure of his father's associate, Coppelius. In Romanian folklore, there is a similar character, Moș Ene (Ene the Elder). Hoffmann's version of the sandman is also similar to the French Canadian character known as the {{lang|fr|Bonhomme Sept Heures}} (Goodman Seven O’Clock), who, in some versions, throws sand in children's eyes to blind them so that he may capture them. Contrarily to the sandman, his bag is the place where he traps children who do not go to bed.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand.html|title= Der Sandmann|publisher= germanstories.vcu.edu|access-date= June 1, 2019|archive-date= December 31, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181231203714/https://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand.html|url-status= live}}</ref>

[[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s 1841 folk tale ''[[Ole Lukøje]]'' introduced the Sandman, named Ole Lukøje, by relating dreams he gave to a young boy in a week through his magical technique of sprinkling dust in the eyes of the children. "Ole" is a Danish first name and "Lukøje" means "close eye".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/OleLukoie_e.html|title= Ole Lukoie|publisher= The Hans Christian Andersen Center|access-date= June 1, 2019|archive-date= March 27, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190327124401/http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/OleLukoie_e.html|url-status= live}}</ref> Andersen wrote:

{{blockquote|1=There is nobody in the world who knows so many stories as Ole-Luk-Oie, or who can relate them so nicely. In the evening, while the children are seated at the table or in their little chairs, he comes up the stairs very softly, for he walks in his socks, then he opens the doors without the slightest noise, and throws a small quantity of very fine dust in their eyes, just enough to prevent them from keeping them open, and so they do not see him. Then he creeps behind them, and blows softly upon their necks, till their heads begin to droop. But Ole-Luk-Oie does not wish to hurt them, for he is very fond of children, and only wants them to be quiet that he may relate to them pretty stories, and they never are quiet until they are in bed and asleep. As soon as they are asleep, Ole-Luk-Oie seats himself upon the bed. He is nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken fabric; it is impossible to say of what color, for it changes from green to red, and from red to blue as he turns from side to side. Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreams at all.}}

In Norway and Sweden, he is called John Blund or Jon Blund ("blunda" is a verb that means both "to shut one's eyes" and "to keep one's eyes shut", and "[en] blund" is a noun that means both "[an] occurrence of eyes shut" and "[an] occurrence of sleep"), and in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of southern Africa, he is referred to as "Klaas Vaak".<ref>{{cite web
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Klaas Vaak is a character in a Dutch Musical 'De sprookjesmusical Klaas Vaak", has its own TV-series 'Fairytales of Klaas Vaak' and is one of the entertainers in the amusement park  '[[Efteling]]'.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.eftepedia.nl/lemma/Klaas_Vaak |title=Klaas Vaak, The Dutch Character |access-date=2020-10-10 |archive-date=2020-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015044751/https://www.eftepedia.nl/lemma/Klaas_Vaak |url-status=live }}</ref>