"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a horror story by American author Washington Irving, contained in a collection of 34 essays and short stories titled Sketch Book Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. . Written while Irving lives overseas in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Together with Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" companion, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of the earliest examples of American fiction with a lasting popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as Headless Horseman who is believed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head because of a cannon battle in battle.
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From the relentless resting place in that place, and the distinctive character of its inhabitants, who are descended from the original Dutch settlers, this exiled glen has long been known as Sleepy Hollow... A sleepy, drowsy influence seems to hang over the ground, and to absorb atmosphere.
The story was made in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement in Tarry Town (Tarrytown, New York), in a remote valley called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is famous for its ghosts and a haunting atmosphere that surrounds the imaginations of its residents and visitors. Some residents say the city was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement. Another resident said an Native American chief, his tribal wizard, held his powwow here before it was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. The most famous enemy of the Hollow is Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian warrior whose head was shot by a cannon bomb during the "unnamed combat" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "climbed into the battle scene in the night quests about his head".
The "Legend" tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a slim, powerful and superstitious superstitious headmaster of Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, a rowdy city, for the 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, a girl and the only child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage with Katrina as a means of acquiring Van Tassel's luxurious wealth. Bones, local heroes, compete with Ichabod for Katrina's hands, play a series of jokes on the restless school teacher, and the fate of Sleepy Hollow weighed on balance for some time. The tension between the three immediately peaked. On a quiet autumn night, an ambitious Derek attends a harvest party at Van Tassels guesthouse. She danced, participated in parties, and listened to the ghost legend described by Brom and the locals, but her real goal was to propose to Katrina after the guests had left. His intention, however, is ill-fated.
After failing to secure Katrina's hand, Ichabod drove home "heavy hearted and disappointed" through the forest between Van Tassel's farmstead and the Sleepy Hollow settlement. As he passes through some supposedly haunted spots, his active imagination is exaggerated by the ghost stories told at the Baltus harvest festival. After nervously passing under a tulip tree struck by lightning that is haunted by the British spy ghost of Major Andrà © ©, Ichabod meets a cloaked rider at an intersection in a threatening swamp. Uncomfortable with the size and silence of his companion's companion, the teacher was horrified to learn that his partner's head was not on his shoulders, but above the saddle. In a frenzied race to a bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, where the Hessian is said to "vanish, according to the rule, in an instant of fire and brimstone" while crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately flooding his temperament. hijack the horse down the Hollow. However, for the Crane horror, the ghost climbs up the bridge, raises his horse, and throws his clipped head into the face of Ichabod's fear.
The next morning, Ichabod disappears mysteriously from the city, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who is said to "look very knowable whenever Ichabod related story". Indeed, the only relic of the headmaster's flight was his wandering horse, a trampled saddle, a dumped hat, and a mysteriously crushed pumpkin. Though the nature of the Headless Rider is left open for interpretation, this story implies that the ghost is really Brom (an agile rider of action) in disguise. Narrator Irving concludes, however, by asserting that the old Dutch wives continued to promote the conviction that Ichabod was "away from supernatural ways," and legends developed around his departure and his apparition of his melancholic spirit.
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Irving wrote The Sketch Book during the European tour, and part of the story can also be traced back to European origins. The headless rider is the subject of the story of Northern Europe, featuring in German, Irish (eg Dullahan), Scandinavian (eg, Wild Hunting), and English legend, and included in Robert Burns poem "Tam o 'Shanter" (1790) and BÃÆ'¼rger's Der wilde JÃÆ'¤ger , translated as The Wild Huntsman (1796). Usually viewed as a sign of bad luck for those who choose to ignore their apparitions, these ghosts find their victims in pride, cunning people and characters with arrogance and arrogance. One of the most influential renditions of folklore was recorded by German legend Karl MusÃÆ'¤us.
During the height of the American Revolutionary War, Irving wrote that the country around Tarry Town "was one of the most favored places filled with historical records and great men." The British and American lines had been running nearby during the war; a place of robbers, and full of refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border knights. "
After the Battle of the White Plains in October 1776, the southern state of the Bronx River was abandoned by the Continental Army and was occupied by the British. Americans fortified north of Peekskill, leaving Westchester County a stretch of 30 miles of no-man's land and remote, vulnerable to criminals, robbers, and guards. In addition to flocking from the ranks of British Loyalist and light infantry, Hessian JÃÆ'¤gers - snipers and famous horseback riders - were among the raiders who often clashed with the Patriot militia. The Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian soldier who was beheaded, may have been loosely grounded in the discovery of a JÃÆ'¤ger headless corpse found in Sleepy Hollow after a fierce battle, and was later buried by the Van Tassel family, in an unmarked grave in Old Dutch Burying Ground. The dÃÆ' Â © nouement of a fictitious tale is set on a bridge over the Pocantico River in the Old Dutch Church area and Buries the Ground in Sleepy Hollow.
Irving, when he became an assistant camp in New York Gov Daniel D. Tompkins, met with a captain of the army named Ichabod Crane in Sackets Harbor, New York during a castle inspection tour in 1814. Irving may have characterized the character in "The Legend" after Jesse Merwin, who taught at local schools in Kinderhook, further north along the Hudson River, where Irving spent several months in 1809. The inspiration for character Katrina Van Tassel is uncertain.
This story is the longest published as part of Sketch Book Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (commonly referred to as The Sketch Book), published by Irving serially during the years 1819 and 1820, using the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon". With "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of Irving's most directed, studied, and adapted sketches. Both stories are often paired together in books and other representations, and both are included in the early American literary surveys and Romanticism. Irving's portrayal of regional culture and its themes of development versus tradition, supernatural intervention in public places, and the suffering of outsiders personally in a homogeneous community permeates two stories and helps to develop a unique sense of American culture and existential existence during the early 19th century. century.
Movie and TV variations
On the Far North Coast of NSW there is a sleepy hollow sleeping stop. There are stops located on both sides of the road so that North and South traffic can stop. The northern stop is located 58 km north of Ballina, NSW and south stop located 32 km south of Tweed Heads.
See also
- Ghost Films
- Ghost Story
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, founded in 1849, adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground. They are owned and managed separately.
References
Further reading
- Thomas S. Wermuth (2001). Neighbor Rip Van Winkle: Transforming Rural Communities in the Hudson River Valley . State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5084-8.
External links
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow original text with human readable audio.
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from The Harvard Classics (1917), hosted online at Bartleby.com.
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in American Literature.
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow public domain audiobook on LibriVox
- "Sleepy Hollow", a non-fictional description of the location of the story written by Washington Irving in 1839.
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Founded in 1849, adjacent but separate from the Old Dutch Drilling Ground.
- Ichabod Adventure and Toad on IMDb
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow on IMDb
- Sleepy Hollow on IMDb
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