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/ˈsænd.mæn/ · noun
(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes..
This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
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Sandman means (folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes..
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This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
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