In the canon
Tales of Hoffmann
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1817
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 420
Do not look at the Sandman: he comes for children who will not sleep, throws sand in their eyes until they jump bloody from their heads, and carries them off in a sack to feed his brood on the moon. That is a nursemaid's story, told to a small boy called Nathanael, and the tale never says whether he recovers from it or was simply right.
he's a wicked man, who comes to little children when they won't go to bed and throws handfuls of sand in their eyes
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