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The headless ghost of a Hessian soldier that is purported to haunt the town of Sleepy Hollow. The Storyteller. An older, gentlemanly, but poor man who relays “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to the narrator. Possibly an older version of Brom Bones, he only appears in the story’s postscript. Hans Van Ripper. An elderly farmer and Ichabod’s ...
The most frightening of these is the tale of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, who is believed to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier decapitated by a cannon ball during the American Revolution.
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
The ghost earns the alliterative title of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, who loves fairy and ghost stories, particularly enjoys hearing this tale told by a fire with ...
Who's the Ghost in Sleepy Hollow: Directed by Wen-Hsien Hsu. With Chi-Wing Lau, Bao-Yu Wang, Chi-Yu Chang, Yung-Hsiang Chin.
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- Chi-Wing Lau, Bao-Yu Wang, Chi-Yu Chang
- Wen-Hsien Hsu
Most of the stories feature the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a German soldier who fought for the British during the American War of Independence and who lost his head when it was knocked off by a cannonball. Brom Bones says that he saw the ghost once and challenged it to a race.
Sleepy Hollow’s inhabitants love telling ghost stories about their region. One of the most pervasive tales is that of the Headless Horseman, who rides by on horseback through the night—supposedly it is the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head was shot off by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War.
