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	Sandman - OneLook Dictionary Search
		sandman : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Sandman : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
		Phrases that include Sandman: characters in the sandman, charles w sandman, charles william sandman, mr.
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Sandman (203 words)

	Folklore Encyclopedia
		Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group.
		The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals.
		There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors (including conspiracy theories), gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle rituals.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Folklore.html (1034 words)

	Sandman (folklore) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sandman is a character in popular Western folklore who brings good sleep and dreams by sprinkling magic sand on to the eyes of children.
		Sandman by the Chordettes, (in a slightly different form), Sandman by America, Enter Sandman by Metallica, Mein Herz brennt by Rammstein and Blood Red Sandman by Lordi in which the Sandman is impersonated and represented rather sinisterly.
		A Sandman was highlighted in The WB television series Charmed, in the episode San Francisco Dreamin'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandman_(folklore) (709 words)

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		Sandman made good on the promise of comics' depth made by Moore, Miller, and Art Spiegelman's Maus - "Sandman's popularity and success" says Berger, "helped me make an argument for forming a new imprint [] a place for the provocative and personal visions of comics' best talent" (Introduction).
		At its core, The Sandman series is about stories; while, certainly, Bender is correct in saying that the title focuses on "where they come from and how they shape us," it is just as much about how we shape them (2).
		The Sandman is, in short, an adult work of literature, and manages all the responsibilities of that lofty designation with aplomb.
	biphome.spray.se /rivieran/literature/praise.html (1579 words)

	The Sandman (DC Comics Modern Age) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sandman was a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics for 75 issues from 1988 until 1996.
		A Game of You (collecting The Sandman #32-37, 1991-1992): Barbie, a New York divorcée, travels to the magical realm that she once inhabited in her dreams, only to find that it is being threatened by the forces of the Cuckoo.
		Sandman: Midnight Theatre (1995), in which Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman, meets Lord Morpheus of The Endless, the Modern Age Sandman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sandman_(DC_Comics_Modern_Age) (2628 words)

	Sandman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sandman (folklore), a figure who brings good sleep and dreams by sprinkling magic sand onto sleeping children; also used as a symbol of the passage of time to death
		Howard Simms, also known as "Sandman", a tap dancer in vaudeville, who acquired his name from the sand he sprinkled on the floor to amplify the sound of his steps when he danced; in his senior years, Simms appeared at the famous Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed acts offstage with a shepherd's crook, or "hook."
		Sandman (magazine), a free regional music magazine in the UK The Holden Sandman, a well-known model of the panel van (Australian hybrid pickup truck/ute) in the late 1960s
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandman (563 words)

	Facts about folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions long current among a particular ethnic population; in other words, the oral history of a particular culture.
		Johann Gottfried von Herder first advocated the deliberate recording and preservation of folklore to document the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the romantic nationalism which Herder developed.
		The modern western folklore that we are faced has been identified by some scholars as that of urban legend and conspiracy theory.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/folklore.html (563 words)

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		However, it is Gaiman's main set of characters in the Sandman series, known as the Endless, who most prominently emphasize and embody Gaiman's preoccupations with fantasy, folklore and dark humor.
		Folklore is a modern term for the body of traditional customs, superstitions, stories, dances, and songs that have been maintained by a community by processes of repetition other than the written word.
		Sandman also proved that an adult comic book readership was not simply a demographic fluke that appeared after the graphic novel boom in the mid to late 1980s.
	www.holycow.com /dreaming/academia/Anne_Sandman.txt (2893 words)

	Mortens Sandman Page
		Sandman is one of the biggest successes ever, and has through the 90-ies sold over 2 million copies a year.
		The Sandman character is derived in the main part from European folklore.
		Traditionally, every night as a child falls asleep, the Sandman would come and sprinkle some of his dream dust upon the child's eyes to enable it to dream.
	folk.ntnu.no /mortsto/sandman.html (557 words)

	.: Dream Land :. The Sandman series fanlisting
		The Sandman is based on the old bedtime story that parents used to tell their children, hoping it would help them sleep.
		While the original concept of the Sandman story is very old, a tale from classic mythology and folklore, Gaiman has honoured this and the many different versions of the Sandman throughout the series, just as he honours the complexities of storytelling as a whole.
		The Sandman has had such an influence on society there are even subcultures who almost worship the character and the ideologies presented by Gamain in his stories.
	fan.shinydust.net /sandman/about.php (1885 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House: Books: Neil Gaiman,Malcolm Jones III,Mike Dringenberg,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming.
		The Sandman of the late eighties was not quite the majestic, surreal series that became the most celebrated comic book of the 1990s.
		Sandman even after being written 10+ years ago is still as clever and dark as it was then.
	www.amazon.com /Sandman-Vol-Dolls-House/dp/0930289595 (2249 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sandman: The Dream Hunters at Epinions.com
		Sandman, which was written in the late 80's/early 90's broke many rules in story-telling and the world of comic books.
		But true Sandman fans know that Dream did not always appear in the old stories; in fact story after story was told in which he did not appear except in an obscurely associated fashion.
		I highly recommend this not only to the Sandman lovers who can remember sweet dreams of the past, but also to anyone who loves stories that help us to find magic in the ordinary and bring the past back to life.
	www.epinions.com /content_18078338692 (1509 words)

	Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
		There is mention of tengu (birdlike demons); oni (demons) help the onmyoji with his evil-doing; the fox must catch a baku (tapir-like eater of dreams) in her quest to save her love; and Morpheus' gryphon gatekeeper has been replaced by an itsumade (giant bird with a lion's head and snake's tail).
		Gaiman's blending of traditional Japanese folklore with the Vertigo universe is all but seamless.
		The insertion of Morpheus could have been jarring, but was handled with subtlety and care, the only "anachronisms," as it were, being the dream king's ever present raven, and Cain and Abel (presented here as a pair of Japanese brothers fishing the Dreaming's waters).
	greenmanreview.com /book/book_gaiman_sandmandreamhunters.html (678 words)

	Dark Planet: Nonfiction: A Review of Sandman: Book of Dreams
		The sandman has been present for a very long time in folklore and fairy tales as the man who puts sand in the eyes of children to make them sleep.
		DC Comics unveiled a sandman (millionaire Wesley Dodds) replete with fedora, cape and gas mask in WWII; then Karen Berger brought in Neil Gaiman in 1987 to revise and revitalize "The Sandman" to what we all know him to be today.
		The Sandman is a family saga, chronicling Dream and (described by Karen Berger as) "his dysfunctional and pantheonic family the Endless," including siblings: Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium (who used to be called Delight), Destruction and Destiny.
	darkplanet.basespace.net /nonfict/sandman.html (2199 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Sandman: Dream Hunters (The Sandman): Books: Neil Gaiman,Yoshitaka Amano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
		Neil Gaiman's multi-award winning Sandman saga is the extraordinary story of the world of Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, and his family, The Endless.
		The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sandman-Dream-Hunters/dp/1840232048 (934 words)

	comicreaders.com - Death at Death's Door
		The point of all this rambling is this: Sandman is a landmark investment in time.
		Sandman the series was a mix of artistic styles, in the same vein that Gaiman's Sandman stories were a mix of mythologies, folklore and religions.
		This style is a welcome addition to the mythos, and Death at Death's Door is a worthy addition to the Sandman library.
	www.comicreaders.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=230 (945 words)

	hob - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		folklore - the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture
		leprechaun - a mischievous elf in Irish folklore
		sandman - an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/hob (178 words)

	alice in wonderland and the sandman - www.ezboard.com
		It might be argued that parts of the story have entered our modern day folklore as recognizable elements, symbols, etc. such as the Cheshire Cat and the rabbit down the hole.
		While the connection between Alice and folklore is fuzzier, the theme of a hero or heroine entering an alternate reality and having tasks to accomplish in order to complete a quest is based in myth.
		On the other hand, I definitely think Carroll was influenced by the folklore he had heard and read, but I doubt his intention to write a fairy tale.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2003/dec2003/alice.html (936 words)

	Doctor Who - The Sandman - Audio Drama
		The Sandman is a terrifying figure from the folklore of the nomadic Galyari species.
		If you were wondering why the Seventh Doctor referred to himself as the Sandman in last month's The Rapture, then perhaps this audio drama holds the answer.
		Colin Baker is perfectly cast as the stuff of alien nightmares, over-acting superbly in his Sandman guise.
	www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /reviews/audio/02-10-24_dw-Sandman.htm (330 words)

	Sandman graphic novel by Forbidden Planet
		The Sandman Vol. 2 : The Doll's House
		The Sandman Vol. 9 : The Kindly Ones
		The Sandman and Neil Gaiman - if this is new to you it may seem intimidating.
	www.fpigraphics.co.uk /acatalog/DC_Sandman_GN.html (315 words)

	darkly romantic comics - batman, the crow, sandman
		Batman, The Crow, The Sandman and The Tomb of Dracula represent the Dark Romantic movement in comics.
		The bat often appears in folklore and gothic novels.
		The consequences of his imprisonment become clear in the course of the series.The Endless are: Dream.
	hem.passagen.se /hehe/darkly_romantic_comics.htm (273 words)

	The Evolution of Irish Folklore in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Tales of Terror - Associated Content
		The tales that are Irish based which involving a heavy use of lore, such as ‘The White Cat of Drumgunniol', ‘The Ghost and the Bone-setter', and ‘The Child that went with the Fairies', prove to degenerate into a farce, mocking the superstitious peasantry and avoiding the standard gothic tradition.
		Those tales that are specifically set in Ireland where the idea of Irish folklore is more extended by Le Fanu, such as ‘The Familiar', prove to find a happy medium between satire towards the superstitious, and idea of the gothic, preserving a balance of both levity and suspense.
		Throughout the evolution of Le Fanu's manipulation of Irish folklore, the idea of the main protagonists relation to the harbinger of death continues to change, ranging from the traditional to the newly invented, all once again in relation of the emphasis of the Irish setting.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/14367/the_evolution_of_irish_folklore_in.html (556 words)

	The Evolution of Irish Folklore in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Tales of Terror - Associated Content
		The use of the Irish setting, folklore, and humor, prove to make this tale not the stuff that nightmares are made of.
		However, at this stage, the arena is still a patchwork of folklore presented by a narrator whose credibility does not fit with the documentation scheme devised.
		The use of Irish folklore continues to prove to diffuse the terror in the tales of Le Fanu.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/14367/the_evolution_of_irish_folklore_in.html?page=5 (856 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Neil Gaiman's Sandman - A188606
		The Sandman, conceived by Neil Gaiman for a series of graphic novels published by Vertigo Comics, began life in December, 1988.
		During the 1970s, DC Comics reinvented the Sandman once again, giving him the alter-ego of Hector Hall.
		The Sandman has had such an influence on society there are even subcultures who almost worship the character and the ideologies presented by Gaiman in his stories.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A188606 (2237 words)

	Enter Sandman by Metallica Songfacts
		There's no mention of satan at all, the song is very clearly about a child who has gone to bed and is afraid to go to sleep because of the scary things he thinks up in his mind.
		The entity of the Sandman has existed in the folklore of many cultures for centuries, and he is pretty much universally regarded as the one who brings sleep.
		Sandman is a symbol of bad spirit as a learnt image of his childhood.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2509 (3271 words)

	Frightening Russian Ladies, and the Chicken-Huts who Love Them \| MetaFilter
		From appearing in the sixth Sandman collection to her role in the Sierra classic Hero's Quest, she (like any good mythic figure) is never quite described the same way twice, and has all kinds of neat gear - like a hut that stands on chicken's legs, and can chase victims at will.
		It's just that folklore usually stays where it belongs, with the "folk" (or the people of the particuliar nationality that came up with it in the first place).
		The confusion of witches as real-life practitioners in magic with malevolent female demons of mythology and folklore is most evident in the figure of the baba-iaga or iagaia-baba, who has an ancient lineage as a child-stealing and child-eating demon.
	www.metafilter.com /25764/Frightening-Russian-Ladies-and-the-ChickenHuts-who-Love-Them (1733 words)

	Oxford University Press
		The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life.
		Similarly, folklore is as much a feature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, and of every age group and occupation.
		Aimed at a broad general readership, the dictionary provides an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as The Sandman, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood, and gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore, from nosebleeds and wishbones to cats and hot cross buns.
	www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-860766-0 (486 words)

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