The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Bo Hampton

He crossed the bridge ahead of the ghoul however, the pumpkin head is hurled directly at Ichabod as he makes it across the bridge. This vision resulted in a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground to escape the specter.Ĭrane eventually crosses the bridge, that according to legend, the ghost could not cross. Ichabod is horrified to discover that the stranger’s head, in the form of a Jack-o’-Lantern, is not on his shoulders, but on his saddle. The “Legend” relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who, on one night, encounters a cloaked rider at an intersection near a menacing swamp. The most infamous apparition is the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a trooper whose head had been shot off by a cannonball during the Revolution, and who rides in nightly quests for his head.

Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts that pervade the imaginations of its inhabitants. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a gothic story by Washington Irving, first published in 1820. The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement near New York, in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. The story is mainly remembered during Halloween as the character who is known as the “Headless Horseman.” The Legend of Sleepy Hollow “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity. The painting is one of several by John Quidor based on scenes from Irving’s written works about Dutch New York. Visible in the background is the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow and the adjacent Cemetery, and the full moon. The Headless Horseman is holding a pumpkin, which he is preparing to throw at Crane. The schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is fleeing on a white horse, pursued by the Headless Horseman on a black horse. “The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane” by John Quidor depicts a scene from Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” “The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane” by John Quidor

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Bo Hampton