Hvor er legenden om søvnig hulbaseret?
New York
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Historien foregår i 1790 i landskabet omkring den hollandske bosættelse Tarry Town (det historiske Tarrytown, New York) i en afsidesliggende dal ved navn Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow er berømt for sine spøgelser og den hjemsøgende atmosfære, der gennemsyrer indbyggernes og de besøgendes fantasi. Nogle beboere siger, at byen var forhekset i de tidlige dage af den hollandske bosættelse. Andre beboere siger, at en gammel indianerhøvding, der var sin stammes troldmand, holdt sine powwows her, før landet blev opdaget af mester Hendrick Hudson. Det mest berygtede spøgelse i Hollow er den hovedløse rytter, som siges at være spøgelset af en hessisk soldat, der fik hovedet skudt af en vildfaren kanonkugle under "et navnløst slag" i den amerikanske revolutionskrig, og som "rider ud til slagets scene i natlig søgen efter sit hoved".
New York
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement. Other residents say an old Native American chief, the wizard of his tribe, held his powwows here before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper 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".
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow