History
The Story Behind The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
The Headless Horseman used to kidnap me when I was younger.
When I was a kid, I had this recurring dream about the Headless Horseman. He would take me on his horse through my neighborhood.
In the years after that, the dream faded away, and kept wondering where that dream might come from — I had never seen any kind of movie or read a book about this tale.
But there was this one game: Happy Harvest.
It was a social farming game where you could grow your crops and share things with your friends. It also had seasonal themes and always on Halloween, the Headless Horseman appeared on your farm and you had to complete quests for him to earn a couple of extra money.
I think that’s where it came from; but what’s the story behind the tale?
Searching for his head
The Headless Horseman is a character from the Sleepy Hollow Legend; he is searching for his or keeping it in his hand. I remember it as the horseman who keeps his Jack-o’-lantern head in his hand.
The story originally came from the book: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, by Washington Irving.
