![]() ![]() ![]() He is rumored to be a Hessian-a German soldier who fought with the British-general beheaded by a cannonball during the American Revolutionary War (3). The most feared spirit in the region is a ghostly rider on horseback without a head. Regardless of the source, superstitions, visions, and hallucinations abound, making the area infamous and avoided by outsiders. The Dutch residents, who have lived there for generations, believe the area is bewitched, either by “a High German doctor, during the early days of settlements an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe” (3). ![]() The narrator notes that Sleepy Hollow has a somnolent, mysterious quality. Two miles north of Tarry Town is a valley called Sleepy Hollow, which is where the main action of the story takes place. Dietrich Knickerbocker, a fictional Dutch historian of Irving’s invention, narrates the story, which is set near the northern New York port village of Tarry Town (real name Tarrytown, where Irving settled in 1835), situated on the Tappan Zee River (also the name of the real river that runs through the region). ![]()
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