Headless Horseman

According to Haviland, “Verbal arts generally transmit and preserve a culture’s customs and values” (341). Throughout the United States, the story of the Headless Horseman, a verbal story described in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is well-known in American folklore. It is a scary story that many children tell around the campfire in an attempt to scare one another, saying that if someone is not careful, the Headless Horseman will come for them. However, many Americans do not realize that this legend originated from a story that appears in Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving was born to a Scottish immigrant family on April 3, 1783, in New York City. Later that year, The Treaty of Paris was signed,…

Headless horseman Most of us know about the horseman who carries around a jackolantern, and who has no head and searches for one to replace his missing one (Hendricks 1). Well you may not know about that at all and you may be going “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” The Headless horseman has been a legend that has been around for many years and has had many appearances in our modern culture today. This essay will explore the legend of the Headless horseman. To start with, let's…

On the contrary, the producer of the movie shows what happened to the headless horseman with his own twist on the events, and shows scene of when the headless horseman was alive and how he was corned by his enemy and had his own head chopped off of his body like how he does to everyone he comes back for (The legend of sleepy hollow, Pierre Gang). This event from the plot was different as the producer of the film needed to have a distinct way that the headless horseman came to be, instead of just…

sight of her made Ichabod forget about the heart break Katrina had caused him. He quietly went up to Dame Van Winkle, and shyly asked her if she would like to go for a walk together. Dame Van Winkle looked around. She realized that Rip Van Winkle would probably not be home from the woods tonight, so she happily said yes. Shortly after beginning their walk, they heard the sound of a horse galloping. Realizing it was night time, Ichabod began to fear the worst. He hurried Dame Van Winkle along in…

were dead. No plants grew. Many people thought that this was the work of the Headless Horsemen. The only object that attached the woods to the town was the bridge, and no one dared to cross it since Ichabod Crane vanished. The bridge, as I was told, was haunted. “Hello,” I called out, “ Who’s there? Come out, I dare you. COME OUT!” A twig fell. I started to turn around. A tree shook violently, and then, silence. I stepped off my horse and looked around. Something wasn’t…

Fear of unknown is used in several forms in the two stories. During the scene of Brom telling the story of the headless horseman, the theme fear of unknown is used. Ichabod fears for his life on his way back, but he does not know when he headless horseman will appear or if he will. Instead of fearing for his life, Althorpe is causing the fear of unknown upon Constantia. When Constantia finds Althorpe in the wilderness, she is not sure what he is doing out here or what is going to happen next.…

character was a force behind the conflict with the doctor and her children, whom she felt were being to serious about the matter. In the legend of sleepy hollow the fact they changed Ichabod Crane’s character did good for the movie. They narrative that was in the story would not have been long enough for an hour and a half movie so the changing of his character from a school teacher to a police officer let the producers and writers of the movie elongate the plot and make it more exciting and…

Burton’s most common film Sleepy Hollow is generally recognized for the way Burton displays the male and female characters. Burton displays that female and male characters have the same similarities. Traditionally, male characters may be recognized as having to be the strong hero, and females are supposed to be weak and the damsel in distress. However, in Sleepy Hollow, the main character Ichabod Crane is described as a masculine man that also has a feminine side to him. For example, Ichabod is…

In all our lives we have choices and depending on the choices we make it could change our lives for the better or for the worst. In the story “ The Legend of sleepy Hollow ”, Ichabod Crane is a strange man from New York seeking work as a school teacher in Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is a town full of strange occurrences and peculiar people. Ichabod was being bothered by a superstition named The headless Horsemen and was also troubled by Brom Bones. Brom Bones disliked him because he didn't want…

Crane came to that place and met Katrina. This fellow was to be in love with Katrina, but he only wanted her family's money. In the story there was another guy named Brom Bones and he was also in love with Katrina and always scared off any man who would talk to her. Ichabod later disappeared, people believed he was taken by the headless horseman, and that left Brom to be able to marry Katrina. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Washington Irving kind of wrote the story in a very funny form, but…