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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 common 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.