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Headless Horseman Tales
Where did the inspiration for the Sleepy Hollow tale come from? Old Irish and Norse folk stories? The creepy woods of upstate New York? The author’s own personal experiences?
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Synopsis of Sleepy Hollow: The Hex of the Headless Horseman
Washington Irving‘s Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been told and retold in many different ways. It was first written as one of many short stories in a collection: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. From there, it transformed time and time again. There was an opera, a short-lived Broadway musical, comics, radio shows, TV…