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10 ott 2019 · Washington Irving's 1820 tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes the real-life village of Sleepy Hollow is considered one of America's first ghost stories—and one of its scariest.
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The Headless Horseman is an archetype of mythical figure that has appeared in folklore around Europe since the Middle Ages. The figures are traditionally depicted as riders upon horseback who are missing their heads.
19 ott 2023 · The Headless Horseman might be a nod to a bloody moment during the war in 1776, when a German soldier, or Hessian, was allegedly decapitated by a cannon ball in the area near White Plains, and purportedly buried by a Dutch-American family in Sleepy Hollow.
- Kaleena Fraga
One autumn night, Ichabod is invited to attend a harvest party at the Van Tassel homestead. At the party, Brom tells the story of the Headless Horseman, the notorious ghost of a Hessian trooper decapitated by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War.
- Washington Irving
- 1819
20 set 2022 · The beloved American legend follows the tale of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher who finds himself in the haunted town of Sleepy Hollow, where he suffers an ill-fated encounter with the village’s infamous headless horseman before he mysteriously disappears from the community for good.
- Natasha Ishak
5 giu 2020 · The Headless Horseman has cantered through Scandinavian mythology, early German folklore, and northern Indian lore. This is the legend of the Headless Horseman explained.
22 mag 2024 · Abraham Van Brunt (also called Brom Bones) is Crane’s jealous rival, a local favorite and a rash horseman who often plays tricks on the schoolmaster. Late one night as Crane rides home from a party at Van Tassel’s home, he is suddenly frightened by a ghostlike headless horseman.
