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  1. Customize your avatar with the Headless Horseman and millions of other items. Mix & match this bundle with other items to create an avatar that is unique to you!

  2. In the 1999 Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is the ghost of a murderous Hessian mercenary (performed by Ray Park in Headless Horseman form and portrayed by Christopher Walken in his true form) summoned by Katrina Van Tassel's stepmother Lady Van Tassel to eliminate her enemies after she stole his skull from his ...

  3. Oct 10, 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. But Irving...

  4. The Headless Horseman is a well-known mythical creature in European folklore, with various interpretations across different countries. In Ireland, the Headless Horseman is known as the Dullahan, a demonic fairy who rides a horse and carries his head under his arm.

  5. Oct 19, 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.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DullahanDullahan - Wikipedia

    The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán, / ˈduːləˌhɑːn /) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore. He is depicted as a headless rider on a black horse, or as a coachman, who carries his own head.

  7. Jun 5, 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.

  8. The Headless Horseman may have indeed been based loosely on the discovery of such a corpse found in Sleepy Hollow after a violent skirmish, and later buried by the Van Tassel family, in an unmarked grave in the Old Dutch Burying Ground. [6]

  9. Headless horseman, fictional character, a legendary spirit that supposedly haunts the community of Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

  10. The Dullahan is a legendary creature in Irish folklore, often depicted as a headless rider on a black horse. According to the myth, he carries his own head held high in his hand or under his arm. The head is said to have a grotesque appearance, with eyes that glow like candles and a mouth that is always open.

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