A character that makes people sleep by dropping sand in the eyes (I wonder if it stings).
-Origin: eighteenth, nineteenth century.
-See also the Greek mythology: Morpheus and the deities of dreams (the Oneiroi).
-Germanic culture: der Sandmann
-Galicia, Pedro Chosco - good old man - puts the babies to sleep and seduces the girls (... a second, what? !!).
-Portugal, João Pestana (shy)
Interesting: originally, he was not always a benevolent character. Some versions say that children will have nightmares if they refuse to sleep. Others speak of a creature that puts children to sleep to devour afterwards. |
