Hoffmann, has been broadcast since 1959, along with a West German version which was discontinued after reunification. The East German stop motion children's television programme Unser Sandmännchen ( Our Little Sandman), based on Hans Christian Andersen's Ole Lukøje character and the story by E. The East German Sandmännchen in a hot air balloon 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'. In Norway and Sweden, he is called John or Jon Blund, and in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of southern Africa, he is referred to as "Klaas Vaak". 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. 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. 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. As soon as they are asleep, Ole-Luk-Oie seats himself upon the bed. 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. Then he creeps behind them, and blows softly upon their necks, till their heads begin to droop. 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. There is nobody in the world who knows so many stories as Ole-Luk-Oie, or who can relate them so nicely. "Ole" is a Danish first name and "Lukøje" means "close eye". 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. Contrarily to the sandman, his bag is the place where he traps children who do not go to bed. Hoffmann's version of the sandman is also similar to the French Canadian character known as the Bonhomme Sept Heures (seven o’clock guy), who, in some versions, throws sand in children's eyes to blind them so he may capture them. In Romanian folklore there is a similar character, Moș Ene (Ene the Elder). The protagonist of the story grows to associate this nightmarish creature with the genuinely sinister figure of his father's associate, Coppelius. According to the protagonist's nurse, he threw sand in the eyes of children who wouldn't 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. Hoffmann (1776–1822) wrote a short story in 1816 titled Der Sandmann, which showed how sinister such a character could be made. Klaas Vaak entertainer in Themepark EftelingĮ.
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