![]() Traditional folklore holds that the Horseman was a Hessian trooper who was killed during the Battle of White Plains in 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. Also known as " A Strange Tale of Texas,", Reid wrote of the local Texan folktale of their own headless horseman based on the author's adventures in the United States. There is also The Headless Horseman by Mayne Reid, first published in monthly serialized form during 18 and was based off of his adventures in the US, which was later published as a book in 1866. ![]() ![]() 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. After he is beheaded by Gawain, the Green Knight lifts his own head up with one hand and rides from the hall, challenging Gawain to meet him again one year later. The 14th century poem Gawain and the Green Knight features a headless horseman who is the titular giant knight. ![]() The most commonly known examples of the Headless Horseman is from the American tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, and the English tale "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." ![]()
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