Headless Horseman

rides horseback into the night, “all the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon, now came crowding upon his recollection” (184). After time, Crane believes he is being followed, and eventually chased, by the notorious Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. The ghost supposedly hunts Crane down and knocks him off his horse by throwing his decapitated head at the teacher. The following day, all that is found on the premises of the chase was “the hat of the unfortunate…

his mind with these stories, he began believing them. One night, as he was riding on his horse, he thought he saw a headless horseman; riding in black clothes, holding his head in his hands. Ichabod was scared out of his britches. As he rode faster, the “headless horseman” threw something at Ichabod. It hit him. He thought it was the head of the horseman. But the “headless horseman” was actually a man by the name of Brom Bones. Brom Bones was a man who was also wanting the same girl that Ichabod…

Hollow." The lighting, sets, and sound effects really give a scarier mood to the story. The dark and ominous lighting really set the mood during the scene of the performance when the Headless Horseman was chasing Ichabod. The dark and scary lighting and then suddenly, with a creepy white glow, the Headless Horseman appeared. This really made the story more creepy and exciting. The detailed and great sets really looked like the story was coming to life. It really looked like as if Ichabod was in…

witchcraft. He tells Telling the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a dDetective from Connecticut. From his home, Ichabod travels to Sleepy Hollow, New York. His purpose is to investigate multiple murders under mysterious circumstances. People say a headless soldier from the Revolutionary war is behind the murders. Ichabod goes through a lot of adventures to find out the answer to the mystery, the scientific way...…..at least for a little while. He finds the killer to be… read it yourself you…

spirits to linger. The Headless Horseman, the spirit that haunts Sleepy Hollow is waiting; waiting for a man named Ichabod Crane. Crane has done nothing wrong to the horseman, in fact he is frightened of him; but the horseman likes to kill for revenge. Not revenge on Ichabod but revenge on the town that killed the horseman. Sadly Ichabod is in that town and finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time. Crane is walking home from a party late at night with fear of the horseman running…

The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

dressed in all black. I started walking down a dirt path road to my horse. I saddled up on my horse and started riding into town with a pumpkin in my hand. When i arrived i rode thru the town really fast scaring people. Most people call me the headless horseman. When someone looks at me i will run up t them at full speed and chop of their head and place it where mine should be. When i was looking around for people this one guy looked at me fearless and said try me so i rode at him full speed and…

wanted. As the danced ended some of the folks of the town gathered in the back room to tell tales of ghost from the women in the white dressed that died in the white freezing snow, to the head less horse men. Brom told them of his encounter with the headless man. He began to tell him that he was crossing the forest and he past the hunted tree that stood straight up in the middle of the other trees and stood taller than the…

Scarecrow(Master of Fear) Imagine your deepest darkest fears coming alive! Scarecrow also known as Jonathan Crane is a villain in American comic books. Scarecrow's is mostly a adversary of Batman and Robin. Scarecrow was created in the fall of 1941 by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. In fact he was one of Batman's earliest foes. First things first is Scarecrows origin. Jonathan Crane was a psychology professor who had gotten rejected by all the educators because of the attire he wore. Crane was…

ultimately is under godliness and piety. Another interesting element of composition is the way Conner uses seemingly random spheres in the composition to guide the viewer’s eyes across the tapestry. Starting with the skull within the palms of the headless man it extends down the Jesus’ shoulder, then down the arms of the reclining nude, and back up to the skull of the x-rayed figure on the right. This guided passage through the painting reveals a much more coherent narration of the themes which…