In the film the Horseman is depicted as an actual ghost rather than Brom in disguise like in the book. While it was mentioned what happened to Ichabod's hat was found near the shattered pumpkin, a rumor was mentioned that he has married a wealthy widow in a distant county with children who look like him. Just like the story, the Headless Horseman pursues Ichabod Crane which ends with the Headless Horseman throwing his pumpkin head at him. The Headless Horseman appears in " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Once the drug wears off, the victim is safe and beyond the Headless Horseman's ghostly reach. During the hallucinogenic high, any characters who have committed significant sins are hunted by the headless ghost. The only people who can see him are those who have consumed a strange new Ecstasy-like drug that triggers their sixth sense and opens a gateway to the afterlife. It features a headless outlaw biker on a motorcycle who collected the souls of sinners. The comic book series Chopper, written by Martin Shapiro, is a modern-day reimagining of the Headless Horseman. Washington Irving's gothic story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" features a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. In particular the last of the " Legenden von Rübezahl" ( ' Legends of Rübezahl ') from Johann Karl August Musäus's literary retellings of German folktales Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1783) is said to have inspired The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving travelled in Germany in 1821 and had become familiar with Dutch and German folklore. They were revenants who had to wander the earth until they atoned for their sins, sometimes by doing a good deed for a stranger, but instead of showing their gratitude by shaking hands, the stranger and the horseman held a tree branch between them and the branch would wither and die rather than the stranger. Rather than by decapitation, the headless horsemen killed their victims simply by touching them. In Germany the stories come mostly from the Rhineland. The battle denied him any chance to be a chieftain, and both he and his horse are headless in accounts of his haunting of the area. The most prominent Scots tale of the headless horseman concerns a man named Ewen decapitated in a clan battle at Glen Cainnir on the Isle of Mull. A similar figure, the gan ceann ("without a head"), can be frightened away by wearing a gold object or putting one in his path. In another version, he is the headless driver of a black carriage, the Cóiste Bodhar. The dullahan calls out a name, at which point the named person immediately dies. When the dullahan stops riding, a death occurs. He wields a whip made from a human corpse's spine. The dullahan or dulachán ("dark man") is a headless, demonic fairy, usually riding a horse and carrying his head under his arm. " The Headless Horseman" or " A Strange Tale of Texas" was set in Texas and based on a south Texas folk tale. The Headless Horseman is also a novel by Mayne Reid, first published in monthly serialized form during 18, and subsequently published as a book in 1866, based on the author's adventures in the United States. Modern versions of the story refer his rides to Halloween, around which time the battle took place. Eventually, they buried him in the cemetery of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, from which he rises as a malevolent ghost, furiously seeking his lost head and wielding a Jack-o'-Lantern as a temporary replacement and/or weapon. He was decapitated by an American cannonball, and the shattered remains of his head were left on the battlefield while his comrades hastily carried his body away. Traditional folklore holds that the Horseman was a Hessian trooper who was killed during the Battle of White Plains on 28 October 1776. The legend of the Headless Horseman (also known as "the Headless Hessian of the Hollow") begins in Sleepy Hollow, New York, during the American Revolutionary War. The story, from Irving's collection of short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film, including the 1999 Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow. The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the 1820 short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by American author Washington Irving. The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, painting by John Quidor (1858)
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