The Headless Horseman is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head. The Headless Horseman is infamously known for his ascent to the mortal plane on Halloween, searching for his lost decapitated head and would kill anyone who so foolishly cross his path and take their heads as his own. The Headless Horseman's relationship with Halloween Ichabod's whereabouts following the event have remained a mystery. However, Brom Bones was the one behind Ichabod's chase and the legend itself. What happened to Ichabod is unknown he may have survived, or the Headless Horseman took his head. That night, when Ichabod traveled back to Sleepy Hollow, he has a terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman, resulting in the Horseman throwing his pumpkin head at Ichabod. Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow's school teacher, was first introduced to the legend when Brom Bones told everyone at Baltus van Tassel's Halloween party about the Horseman. According to the folklore of Sleepy Hollow, the ghost of the horseman emerges from his tomb at night and rides through the woods in search of his head own head or at the least, a new one.Īccording to legend, the Headless Horseman rises every night searching for his head, and if not, he would take someone else's. They buried the body of the horseman in the graveyard of the Old Dutch Church outside a small dutch-colonized village called Sleepy Hollow (or "Tarrytown" in real life).
The Horseman was killed in 1776 at the Battle of White-Plains (although the book refers to it as "Some nameless battle") when his head was blasted off of his shoulders by a cannon-ball. In the backstory given to the story, the Headless Horseman was a Hessian horseman (likely a mercenary) who fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
In this story which is arguable the most famous incarnation of the Dullahan legend, the Headless Horseman is a ghost rather than a faery.
The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow is a monster inspired by the Dullahan legend who appears in Washington Irving's 1820 Gothic short-story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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