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Update of Headless Horseman Pics. Fictional Headless Horseman Update.

This is an update of my previous article on headless horseman.

For your easy reading I have included here information of previous 

article and also added new information.

Here is a picture of Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod 

Crane in 1858 by John Quidor

The Headless Horseman is a character in fiction. 

The Headless Horseman comes from the short story 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Headless Horseman 's story was written by 

U.S. author Washington Irving. 

The Headless Horseman 's story was taken from many 

short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey 

Crayon.

All story of Headless Horseman were written by same

author Irving.

All story of Headless Horseman worked into American 

folklore or legend through literature and films.

 

A variety of stories about The Headless Horseman

are still told today. 

Some people have even reported actually seeing 

the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow over the 

centuries.

Headless Horseman Background Information:

The legend of the Headless Horseman begins in 

a town near North Tarrytown, New York named 

Sleepy Hollow. 

The Headless Horseman was supposedly a Hessian soldier 

of unknown rank.

The Headless Horseman was one of many such hired 

to suppress the American Revolutionary War. 

During the war, The Headless Horseman was one of 

548 Hessians killed in a battle for Chatterton Hill.

 

The Headless Horseman 's head was severed by a cannonball. 

The Headless Horseman was buried in a graveyard outside 

an Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. 

Thereafter The Headless Horseman appears as a ghost. 

The Headless Horseman presents to nightly travelers. 

The Headless Horseman was an actual danger.

The Headless Horseman was not like largely harmless 

fright produced by the majority of ghosts, presumably 

of decapitation. 

The Headless Horseman also carries a sword. 

In Sleepy Hollow, a Tim Burton film, The Headless Horseman

is seen to also be skilled with an ax and is depicted as 

genuinely sadistic. 

In Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, the Horseman is also depicted 

as being virtually invincible, able to easily survive gunshots, 

stabbing, even explosions. 

The Headless Horseman is popularly portrayed as wearing a 

pumpkin to replace his severed head.