What is "sandman"

Sandman \Sand"man`\, n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

bringer of sleep in nursery lore, 1861, from sand (n.) in reference to hard grains found in the eyelashes on waking; first attested in a translation from the Norwegian of Andersen (his Ole Lukoie "Ole Shut-eye," about a being who makes children sleepy, came out 1842), and perhaps partly from German Sandmann. More common in U.S.; dustman with the same sense is attested from 1821.

n. 1 A legendary figure who is said to bring good sleep and dreams by placing sand in the eyes. 2 (non-gloss definition: Used as a symbol of the passage of time to death.)

n. an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy

The Sandman is a figure in folklore who brings good sleep and dreams.

Sandman may also refer to:

The Sandman is a mythical character in Dutch, and Central and northern European folklore who puts people to sleep and brings good dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto the eyes of people while they sleep at night.

Sandman and The Sandman, in comics, may refer to a number of characters:

• Sandman (DC Comics), denoting the various characters that have taken the mantle of the Sandman, including:
  • The Sandman (Vertigo), a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and centers around the protagonist, Dream/Morpheus, the immortal anthropomorphic personification of dreams
  • Sandman (Wesley Dodds), a comic character from the 1930s who has made more recent appearances in:
    • Sandman Mystery Theatre
    • Sandman Midnight Theatre, in which Dodds meets Dream
  • Just Imagine... Sandman, Stan Lee and Walt Simonson’s version of Sandman
  • Sandy Hawkins, the current DC Sandman
• Sandman (Marvel Comics), a supervillain who can transform his body into sand, and is an enemy of Spider-Man

Wesley Dodds is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name Sandman, he was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman.

Attired in a green business suit, fedora, and gas mask, the Sandman used a gun emitting a sleeping gas to sedate criminals. He was originally one of the mystery men to appear in comic books and other types of adventure fiction in the 1930s but later was outfitted with a unitard/cowl costume and developed into a proper superhero, acquiring sidekick Sandy, and founding the Justice Society of America.

Like most DC Golden Age superheroes, the Sandman fell into obscurity in the 1940s and eventually other DC characters took his name. During the 1990s, when writer Neil Gaiman's Sandman (featuring Morpheus, the anthropomorphic embodiment of dreams) was popular, DC revived Dodds in Sandman Mystery Theatre, a pulp/noir series set in the 1930s. Wizard Magazine ranked Wesley Dodds among the Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time, and he is the oldest superhero in terms of continuity to appear on the list.

Sandman (William Baker a.k.a. Flint Marko) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he began as a villain and later became an ally of Spider-Man. The character has been adapted into various other media incarnations of Spider-Man, including animated cartoons and the 2007 film Spider-Man 3, in which he is portrayed by Thomas Haden Church.

In 2009, Sandman was ranked as IGN's 72nd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

Sandman is the twelfth album by Harry Nilsson.

Sandman was a free music magazine launched in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in September 2002. Later versions were created, specifically covering Leeds, Kingston upon Hull, York, Nottingham and Manchester before all five editions were amalgamated into one compendium edition which also covered Manchester, Bradford, Derby and Leicester making Sandman the largest independent publication of its kind in the UK.

Sandman's aims were simply to cover and support the local music scenes of the cities in which it was published.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the sandman is a type of elemental creature.

The Sandman is the pseudonym of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. They have appeared in stories of various genres, including the pulp detective character Wesley Dodds, superheroes such as Garrett Sanford and Hector Hall, and mythic fantasy characters more commonly called by the name Dream. Named after the folklore character that is said to bring pleasant dreams to children, each has had some thematic connection to dreaming, and efforts have been made to tie them into a common continuity within the DC Universe.