The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is a short story, written by Washington Irving, that was part of his short story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. He wrote it when he stayed in Birmingham in England . It was first published in 1820. Along with the short story Rip van Winkle 'Sleepy Hollow is one of the most widely readAmerican stories today.



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[hide] *1 Content  ==Content[ Edit] == The story is set in 1790, in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York; this closed community was also called called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who Abraham "Brom bones" van Brunt, which competes with him the favors of the 18-year-old Katrina van Tassel, the daughter and the only child of the wealthy farmer Baltus van Tassel. Crane leaves a birthday party at the Van Tassels on an autumn evening, when he is facing the Headless Horseman (Headless Horseman), that might be the spirit of a Hessian Horseman, which lost his head is hit by a stray Cannonball during one of the many skirmishes in the American Revolutionary Wars. This rider comes out only at night to find his head. Ichabod then disappears without trace from the community and Katherina marries Brunt.
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The interpretation about the background of the headless rider is by Irving left open for speculation. The story implies that the rider actually Van Brunt was disguised as the rider. ==Inspiration[ Edit] == The legend of Sleepy Hollow is based on a folk tale of German origin, set in the Dutch culture of the Pre-revolutionary war in New York State. The first mention of the folk tale was described by Karl Musäus. Short description:

''The headless rider was here seen a lot, an old man who did not believe in ghosts, told about a meeting with the headless rider coming back from his trip to the Hollow. The rider forced him to climb on the back of the horse, they rode over bushes, hills and swamps. When they reached the bridge, changed the rider into a skeleton. He then threw the old man into a ditch and disappeared over the tops of the trees with a thunder clap''.

In the series of events in the story is the bridge, which is an important point in the story, linked to the bridge over the Pocantico River, located in the area where the old Dutch Church and cemetery are located inSleepy Hollow . The characters Ichabod Crane and Katarina van Tassel are possible based on local residents in the area, who were acquaintances of Irving. The character Katrina is presumably partly based on Eleanor Van Tassel Brush, where her first name Eleanors's aunt Catriena Ecker incorporated would Villar.

Irving would be possible also a well known have been an army colonel named Ichabod Crane from Staten Island ( Thomas Jackson this would agree among themselves have had if recruit). The character from The legend would still mostly based on Jesse Merwin, a local school teacher from Kinderhook, northerly to the Hudson. Irving in 1809 several months would have lived in the House with him. ==Film Operations<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Headless Horseman (1922), a silent film by Edward Venturini, starring Will Rogers as Crane.
 * The adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad (1949), directed by James Algar, Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney, produced by Walt Disney Productions and animated film on the story of Irving.
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980), directed by Henning Schellerup, was a film made for television in Utah, with Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane and Dick Butkus as Brom Bones.
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was a Canadian television film directed by Pierre Gang.
 * Sleepy Hollow (1999) was a film directed by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane and Christopher Walken in the role of headless rider.
 * The Hollow (2004), directed by Kyle Newman. The story of the legend is used as a modern-day operation, the headless rider is again awakened and a descendant of Ichabod Crane the rider must stop now.
 * Sleepy Hollow (2013), a television series based on this story.