Daniel Robitaille is the true name of the vengeful ghost of an African American man who was brutally lynched for a forbidden interracial love affair in the 19th century, and will haunt and kill anyone who calls the name of Candyman before a mirror five times in a row, he also is largely driven by a need to sustain his legacy, killing those who doubt his spectral existence in order to ensure that the rumor of him is kept alive.