"What Inspired 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'?" Topic
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Tango01 | 11 May 2020 3:14 p.m. PST |
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow resurfaces every year around Halloween. 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. But Irving didn't invent the idea of a headless rider. Tales of headless horsemen can be traced to the Middle Ages, including stories from the Brothers Grimm and the Dutch and Irish legend of the "Dullahan" or "Gan Ceann," a Grim Reaper-like rider who carries his head. Elizabeth Bradley, a historian at Historic Hudson Valley, says a likely source for Irving's horseman can be found in Sir Walter Scott's 1796 The Chase, which is a translation of the German poem The Wild Huntsman by Gottfried Bürger and likely based on Norse mythology…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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rmaker | 11 May 2020 4:04 p.m. PST |
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 By whom? There are literary ghost stories in American literature well back into the 17th Century. And the Amerinds had them well before that. |
Tango01 | 12 May 2020 12:07 p.m. PST |
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