The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel’s extravagant wealth. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been shot off by a stray cannonball.
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The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel’s extravagant wealth. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been shot off by a stray cannonball during some nameless battle of the Revolution. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, where the Hessian is said to vanish in a flash of fire and brimstone, Crane and Gunpowder are able to cross the bridge while Crane’s horse rears and hurls its severed head directly at the ghoul. Although the true nature of the headless horseman is unknown, both the schoolmaster’s hat and his horse’s trampled saddle are discarded, and a mysterious pumpkin is found in the area.
In 1949, the second film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of IchabOD and Mr. Toad. The story was written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, and was first published in 1820. It is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headeless Horseman believed to be a Hessia soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. The only story related to Ichabods was Rip Van Winkle, which was related to the story of the same name. The tale is one of 34 essays and short stories contained in Irving’s collection of 34 essay and short story titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irvingwas living abroad, The Sketchbook was published in London in 1819 and 1820, and published in New York in 1821.
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