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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" – also known informally as "The Headless Horseman" – is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, originally published in February 1820 as one of a series of stories later collected as The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. As with a number of Irving's stories, the plot is based on German folk legend (particularly in the re-told versions of Karl Musäus), transplanted to a Hudson Valley, New York setting and mingled with Irving's genial satire of human, and particularly American, foibles.The story has been given a great many adaptations since Irving's time, with the "quilting frolick" of the original tale frequently getting transferred to Halloween.note In actuality, Halloween was not widely celebrated in the United States at the time the story was written, let alone when it takes place. The holiday only started to catch on in the U.S. when Irish and Scottish immigrants brought it over in the mid-19th century. In more than one adaptation it is strongly implied that the Horseman is a genuine supernatural apparition, although Irving's original story leaves things more ambiguous.The story is in the Public Domain and can be read here.The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. also included another Irving short story destined to become famous: "Rip Van Winkle". | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Brom Bones, a musclebound giant who loves to pull pranks and have fun. | |
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Meat-O-Vision | |
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Meat-O-Vision: A rare literary example, when Ichabod sees Van Tassel's farm. | |
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One-Gender School | |
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One-Gender School: It's pretty strongly implied that Ichabod is teaching an all-boys school, since there's never any reference to female pupils and students collectively are referred to as simply "boys" a couple times. Presumably, Sleepy Hollow is provincial enough that they don't think girls need an education at all.note Or more precisely, the girls would be limited to dame schools. Adaptations tend to ignore this and portray Ichabod teaching a coed class. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The entire chase sequence with the Headless Horseman is written as if it is a literal encounter with a terrifying ghost. Only in the aftermath the following morning do we learn that what Ichabod saw as a severed head was actually just a pumpkin, and it begins to be implied that Ichabod's encounter was actually a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax by Brom. | |
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Hidden Object Game | |
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There's a few hidden object games based on the short story. The first Mystery Legends game, Sleepy Hollow, has the player find out the fates of the residents of the titular town. One of the Dark Romance games is based on the short story, where lovers Kane and Katrin seek to stop the Headless Horseman's rampage. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Ichabod is described as having "large green glassy eyes", and as being envious of Baltus van Tassel's wealth. | |
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Horror Struck | |
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Horror Struck: Averted, in that Ichabod fervently believes in all supernatural phenomena — even when (as it is strongly implied) the phenomena aren't supernatural. Later adaptations sometimes play the trope straight. | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The Church Bridge. Ichabod crosses it, hoping that it would allow him to evade the horseman like in Brom's story. It doesn't work. | |
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Hellish Horse | |
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Hellish Horse: The Hessian's horse is described as having a powerful frame which, combined with the silhouette of the horseman atop, looks like a "gigantic monster ready to spring upon the traveler", even before Ichabod realizes its rider is headless. Of course, it's implied that this is really just Daredevil. | |
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Horse Returns Without Rider | |
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Horse Returns Without Rider: The day after Ichabod Crane's encounter with the Headless Horseman, Gunpowder the horse is found near his master's home while Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared. Whether he fled Sleepy Hollow out of fear or was spirited away by the Horseman is left up to interpretation. | |
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Adaptational Sexuality | |
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Tarrytown is loosely based on the story, but set in modern day and shifting the focus of the love triangle from Katrina to Brom, since Ichabod is gay in this version. | |
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Book Burning | |
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Book Burning: After Ichabod's disappearance, his books on the occult are burned by Hans Van Ripper, who decides that literacy in general is a bad thing and stops sending his children to school. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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It doesn't help that for most readers the Headless Horseman is just too cool of a villain to be only a hoax. He's become one of the most famous horror icons. Come on, a cackling headless horseman who prowls the roads looking for heads? How is that not awesome? | |
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The Münchausen | |
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The Münchausen: At the party, Van Tassel and a few of the other elderly gentlemen swap fanciful war stories. | |
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Hot for Student: Ichabod gives Katrina psalmody lessons. She's eighteen, though, and also this was considered a much more mature age, one far more ready for marriage at the time the story is set. | |
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Flat Character: The Headless Horseman is frightening, but it isn't really given any characterization beyond "Scary Headless ghost who chases Ichabod on horseback". Justified, as its appearance may or may not have been a ruse cooked up by Brom Bones to scare off Ichabod. The closest personality trait assigned to it is as being an "arrant jockey" when Brom tells his story of racing the horseman, but this encounter may or may not just be a story he made up. Ironically, this ends up adding to the mystique and terror behind the character. | |
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Moody Mount | |
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Moody Mount: Ichabod's borrowed horse Gunpowder: "The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plow-horse, that had outlived almost everything but its viciousness." | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: Was Ichabod killed by the Horseman or did he just flee from Sleepy Hollow and move somewhere else? Was the Horseman actually supernatural or was it just Brom trying to scare Ichabod off? It's up to the readers to decide, and what answer they decide on completely changes the story. | |
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Old-Timey Ankle Taboo: Katrina is said to favor "a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round." | |
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The Alleged Steed | |
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The Alleged Steed: Gunpowder, Ichabod's horse, is clearly past his prime. | |
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Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
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Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff": The narrator, when referring to the Horseman and his steed, uses the terms "ghost" and "goblin" interchangeably. Today, in the age of fantasy lore, we would see the two concepts as sharply delineated, but in Irving's day, most supernatural concepts were seen as basically the same thing. | |
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In-Universe | |
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The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999) was an hour-long computer motion capture animated Fox TV special. This film went for one of the outright darkest In-Universe Alternative Character Interpretations by making Brom an actual villain; Brom deliberately makes a Deal with the Devil to be rid of Ichabod, though it's left unclear if the "dark spirits" send the original Headless Horseman to get Ichabod or merely encourage Brom to take the Horseman's guise and attack him. The film ends with Brom revealed as the tale-telling In-Universe narrator, as he explains to Irving that in order to pay back his "debt", he has to become the Headless Horseman himself... which he does by pulling off his head and leaving it on the table, laughing at the viewers. | |
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Hollow a Distant Sequel by Boom! Studios which reveals that the Horseman was Good All Along, chasing Ichabod away so Katrina could marry Brom Bones in peace. | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: One of the earliest examples to still be remembered, depending on whether you interpret the Horseman as real or not. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Ichabod's a pretty odd-looking man (though some illustrators successfully translate his description into more distinctive than ugly), but he's extremely popular with the young single women of Sleepy Hollow thanks to being educated and an excellent conversationalist. He exploits this by scrounging dinners off of them and their families when he comes calling on them, all while dreaming of how he loves Katrina...'s father's money. | |
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Narrator | |
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In 1972 a short animated version appeared, narrated by John Carradine. | |
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Sexily Modest | |
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Sexily Modest: Katrina Van Tassel is described as "...a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms." This includes not only "the tempting stomacher of the olden time" (a rather sexy item as it probably raised the breasts and presumably showed some cleavage), but also "...a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round." | |
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Pumpkin Person | |
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Pumpkin Person: The Headless Horseman is sometimes depicted with a jack-o'-lantern in place of his head. In the text, Ichabod sees the horseman carrying a severed head and eventually throwing it at him; in the morning, the locals find the shattered remains of a pumpkin, suggesting that this is what Ichabod actually saw. There's no reference to the pumpkin being carved into a jack-o'-lanternnote Historians are uncertain whether anyone was carving jack-o'lanterns yet when this story was written. Even if the practice did exist, it would not have reached a secluded Dutch New York community yet., but as the story became more and more a fixture of Halloween culture, depicting the pumpkin with a carved face just started to seem right. | |
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Uncle Pennybags | |
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Uncle Pennybags: Baltus Van Tassel is "satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it". He has no interest in increasing his wealth or holdings, and would prefer to simply maintain and manage what he already has and throw the occasional party for his neighbors. From Irving's description of the quilting frolick, Van Tassel comes across as a very generous host indeed. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Ichabod, and yet, he's beanpole thin. | |
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Brains Evil, Brawn Good | |
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Brains Evil, Brawn Good: Ichabod, the intellectual schoolmaster, is portrayed as weak-willed, venal and effeminate; while Brom Bones, the barrel-chested stallion-breaker, is portrayed as honorable, or at least more honorable than Ichabod. On the other hand, Ichabod is a deeply superstitious and gullible man, in contrast to the rational and hard-headed Bones, so in a sense, Brom is actually the smarter of the two. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Besides the Horseman himself, references are made to ghostly funeral processions, a wailing woman in white, and the ghost of British spy Major John André. | |
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Purple Prose | |
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Purple Prose: Some modern readers may be put off by Irving's luxuriant descriptions, typical of the early nineteenth century, of the New York landscape, or the heaped-up delicacies of an old Dutch table, or the varied apparitions that haunt the Hollow. | |
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Meaningful Name: "Ichabod" is traditionally translated as "Inglorious," while "Crane" hints at the schoolmaster's tall, thin frame and beaky nose. | |
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Corporal Punishment | |
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Corporal Punishment: Ichabod is a firm believer in the golden maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Still, he is careful to administer justice with discrimination. | |
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Breakout Villain | |
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Breakout Villain: The Horseman only had a very brief scene in the already short story just near the end, and it's implied that it might not even be a real ghost. In spite of this, the sheer mystique and inherent scariness behind the character ended up making it a horror icon on par with Dracula and Frankenstein, with numerous movie adaptations and modern day takes on the character coming out in the years since Washington Irving's story was published. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: The Headless Horseman is given some backstory; he's believed to be the ghost of a Hessian troopernote German auxiliary troops serving alongside the British army during the American Revolutionary War; and they were not mercenaries - they were official troops sent by the German government. The Hessians also had a reputation for being even more brutal than the British that had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
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Satellite Love Interest: Katrina isn't given much characterization other than being the love interest of both Ichabod and Brom. The narrator freely confesses he doesn't really know what was going on in her head. | |
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Ethnic Menial Labor | |
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Ethnic Menial Labor: There are some rather dated descriptions of the black servants at Van Tassel's home. See Bowdlerise, above. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: Subverted. Brom's story claims the Horseman can't cross the Church bridge, and that he bolted and vanished in a flash of fire. Ichabod exploits this by running across the bridge. It doesn't work—the horseman throws his pumpkin head at Ichabod and gallops off past him unharmed. | |
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Scarecrow Solution | |
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Scarecrow Solution: Why Brom laughed whenever the pumpkin was mentioned. | |
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Headless Horseman | |
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Headless Horseman: The Trope Codifier. | |
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Rounded Character | |
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Rounded Character: Although his most-obvious traits are his greed and gluttony, Ichabod is actually a rather multi-faceted character. Beyond his selfish ambitions, Ichabod is also superstitious, imaginative, has a (typically unhealthy) sense of curiosity, and even has some positive traits thrown in for good measure. | |
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Cool Horse | |
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Cool Horse: Both played straight, with Brom's black horse, Daredevil, and inverted, with Gunpowder, the broken-down Moody Mount that Ichabod borrows from an irascible farmer, although we're told that Gunpowder probably used to be this trope. | |
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Cannot Cross Running Water | |
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Cannot Cross Running Water: The ghost, it's said, always vanishes while crossing the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground. This turns out to be false in the end, as the Horseman is described as having passed by Ichabod after throwing the pumpkin head at him, meaning he probably did cross the bridge unharmed. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Since later stories have taken to interpreting the Horseman as a genuine supernatural entity, Ichabod's unknown fate with it becomes a whole lot darker. | |
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Take It to the Bridge | |
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Take It to the Bridge: Crossing the covered bridge is seemingly the only way to escape the Headless Horseman, but it turns out to not be the case. | |
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Operation: Jealousy | |
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Operation: Jealousy: The narrator speculates that Katrina was never really interested in Ichabod, and was only using him to spur Brom into finally proposing. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Ichabod and Brom vie for Katrina. It's mentioned that she has other suitors, but they are not named, and it would seem both Ichabod and Brom regard each other as the only serious contenders for her love. See Operation: Jealousy below, though. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Ichabod himself. Despite displaying a number of positive traits, Irving focuses largely on his flaws: envy, avarice, gluttony, and sloth. | |
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Ghostly Goals | |
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Ghostly Goals: The Headless Horseman can't move on to the afterlife until he's found a head to replace his own, or so the legend would have you believe. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Brom Bones tells a story of how he raced the Headless Horseman one night for a bowl of punch and won. He claims that he didn't even anticipate that he would win and that it was simply luck that the Horseman couldn't cross the covered bridge. | |
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New England Puritan | |
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New England Puritan: Ichabod Crane seems to be this trope, being portrayed as extremely superstitious and easily willing to believe folk legends, in contrast to the hard-headed Dutch locals of Sleepy Hollow. Given Washington Irving was a native of New York, this may have been a Take That! towards New Englanders. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Not only the usual literary allusions of the period, but especially to Irving's own fanciful Knickerbocker History of New York. | |
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Short Story | |
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Short Story: The story's entire text takes up less than 30 pages when printed in a small novel. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The story hints at both a natural and a supernatural explanation for Crane's disappearance. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Brom Bones is depicted as displaying all the qualities of a Great American Hero: bravery, recklessness, and square-jawed, good ol' boy charm. As such, even though the entire story (in one interpretation) hinges on the consequences of a prank he pulls, the author never loses sympathy with him. | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Many adaptations portray the Horsemen using a jack-o'-lantern for a head even though that is a bit of a misconception. The Horsemen of the original tale is out looking for his own head or a replacement. The one that chases Ichabod is carrying a pumpkin but it is on the horse's saddle and he tosses it forward as a projectile. With the two major theories being A. It's Brom Bones tossing a pumpkin to make Ichabod think it's a severed head or B. The horseman needs some kind of weapon to get his prey off a horse, a pumpkin will do. Either way, if the Horseman could just use a jack-o'-lantern for a head, he'd probably have gone home already.note Though the Disney cartoon gives this a Hand Wave in its Villain Song, stating the horseman is "tired of his flaming top - he's got a yen to make a swap!" Likewise if the Horseman was real, he damn sure wouldn't have thrown a perfectly good head at an annoying schoolmaster either. | |
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Lost in Imitation | |
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Lost in Imitation: Pretty much every interpretation after the original either has the Headless Horseman be truly supernatural (when the original leaves it up in the air but offers the possibility Brom did it), Ichabod be slain by the Headless Horseman (in the original, it's declared he ran away from the Hollow and has taken to living elsewhere, though the locals prefer to ignore that news because him being carried away makes for "a better story". The other option being that Ichabod is actually the Horsemen with Ichabod's head), or both. The Disney version is actually relatively close to the original, preserving the ambiguity. It doesn't help that for most readers the Headless Horseman is just too cool of a villain to be only a hoax. He's become one of the most famous horror icons. Come on, a cackling headless horseman who prowls the roads looking for heads? How is that not awesome? Film and stage, being visual media, can't hide their ambiguities behind text, as literature can. In the short story, the Horseman is narrated as being completely real, until the ending when it is hinted it was actually Brom in disguise. The horrific scene is then revealed to have possibly taken place entirely in Ichabod's mind. It would be incredibly hard to stage such a scene in reality without giving the game away one way or the other, so it's not surprising most adaptations choose not to try. Many adaptations portray the Horsemen using a jack-o'-lantern for a head even though that is a bit of a misconception. The Horsemen of the original tale is out looking for his own head or a replacement. The one that chases Ichabod is carrying a pumpkin but it is on the horse's saddle and he tosses it forward as a projectile. With the two major theories being A. It's Brom Bones tossing a pumpkin to make Ichabod think it's a severed head or B. The horseman needs some kind of weapon to get his prey off a horse, a pumpkin will do. Either way, if the Horseman could just use a jack-o'-lantern for a head, he'd probably have gone home already.note Though the Disney cartoon gives this a Hand Wave in its Villain Song, stating the horseman is "tired of his flaming top - he's got a yen to make a swap!" Likewise if the Horseman was real, he damn sure wouldn't have thrown a perfectly good head at an annoying schoolmaster either. In some ways this suffers loss from people forgetting how it was originally published. Had you have read the entire Sketchbook you'd find this story is the third story to feature supernatural antics.note There are generally two orders to read the Sketchbook in. One is by the serialized order and then by the all in one edition. Regardless though the order of these three stories is the same in both editions. Rip Van Winkle has the ghosts seem completely real and even swears to the tale. The Spectre Bridegroom is believed to be supernatural by most of the characters even though the reader knows the whole thing is a Scarecrow Solution. By the time you get to this tale, the idea that everything is not wrapped up is clearly done on purpose by Irving. Also debunking some claims the supernatural was never in Irving's attempts, but considering people have little memory of the sketchbook nor that Sleepy Hollow and Rip are connected and let alone there was a third one in there might not even be common among some English teachers lecturing on the subject. In many adaptations, Ichabod's encounter with the Headless Horseman takes place on Halloween night because of course it does. The original story doesn't specify Halloween, as it wouldn't, since Halloween was not widely celebrated in the U.S. back then, and even when it began to be a better-known festival, it was mostly a Scottish and Irish holiday, and would have little meaning for the Dutch-Americans of Sleepy Hollow. It is mentioned to have taken place in the autumn, so technically, it could be on Halloween. However, any version that portrays the "quilting frolic" as a Halloween party is committing an anachronism. This trend is believed to have began with the Disney version. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Ichabod gets less and less appealing as the story goes on, peaking when he thinks of how, once he's married Katrina and acquired her father's great wealth, he'll tell everyone he associated with as a schoolteacher to screw off. | |
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Food Porn | |
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Food Porn: One of the aspects of the story that makes it such good autumn reading: Ichabod loves to eat, and much of the story focuses on his quasi-erotic imaginings regarding lovingly prepared seasonal food. At one point the narrator even apologizes that he can't describe the food in even more detail, because he needs to get on with the story. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: The story leaves it ambiguous whether the Horseman killed Crane, or simply scared him away from Sleepy Hollow. The only thing left behind at the scene of their encounter was Gunpowder the horse, a trampled saddle, a discarded hat, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: If Ichabod did survive, he went on to a successful career as a judge; it appears he's stopped trying to scrounge money off others and earned his fortune all by himself. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Ichabod is much impressed by Katrina's beauty and charms, but what seems to really get his attention is her dad's money. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: "The gallant Ichabod now spent at least an extra half hour at his toilet" doesn't mean quite what it would mean nowadays. When this was written, "toilet" meant "dressing table." | |
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Dead Hat Shot | |
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Dead Hat Shot: The only thing ever conclusively found of Ichabod is his hat with a shattered pumpkin close beside it, leaving it ambiguous as to whether he survived his encounter with the Horseman. | |
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