What’s the headless horseman?

The Headless Horseman, a Hessian soldier killed in the Revolutionary War, haunts Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The ghost chases protagonist Ichabod Crane, and the story’s ending is ambiguous. The character has become a literary legend and has been adapted into various forms of popular culture. Perhaps one […]

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