![]() ![]() when Irish and Scottish immigrants brought it over in the mid-19th century. The holiday only started to catch on in the U.S. 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 story has been subject to a great many adaptations since Irving's time, with the "quilting frolick" of the original frequently getting transferred to Halloween. 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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - also known informally as "The Headless Horseman" - is a short story by 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. ![]() "On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!" ![]()
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