Tracing the haunting roots of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," first published 200 years ago by Washington Irving, is still one of America's all-time great ghost stories. Two centuries later, it still remains linked to Halloween and its spooky season. Jeff Glor visits the history of the classic tale this Halloween, in the spot where it all began.
I just love the Disney version. Stunning animation, great songs, and Bing Crosby not taking himself too seriously as the narrator.
Disney made it famous.
True
1958
Bing Crosby reading it I believe, mostly
Just watched it after determining I had to within Halloween time in a country that doesn't celebrate Halloween. Connection to childhood
What this piece didn't cover is the fact that most of the characters in the story are actual real people that are buried in the cemetery and when Irving visited the area as a younger child he based his characters off of the people's names on the tombstones.
Would love the idea of actually being immortalized in a book like this, fictional or not
Charles dickens did this too
The really neat thing is the Headless Horseman supposedly having once been a Hessian soldier who’s head got blown off by a cannonball is entirely true. He died fighting in the Battle of White Plains during the Revolutionary War and was buried in an unmarked grave. His death was so instantaneous his body was still twitching while his comrades carried him away from the battlefield. Grim, isn’t it? 🎃
Yes that’s very true my friend
I love anything that has to do with The legend of Sleepy Hollow! 🌕🎃🍂
I remember as a kid my 2nd grade teacher reading the story. If filled me fright, wonderment, and Imagination. It will be something I hold onto from my youth for the rest of my days
I was one of those teachers in the school system in Florida, telling this story in the elementary school I worked at when I was young. I loved how the kids were obsessed with it.
@@beverlypena4803 Thank you for being one of those teachers! I can only imagine how many students lives you have touched, and they will carry those things with them their whole life.
I even loved the television series “Sleepy Hollow” it was really good too
Yes me too👍🏽
My sun love it
same!!
I used to be scared upon reading the story a bit as a teenager but seeing how thrilling yet interesting and entertaining it is. I finally got used to it. And I still am to this very day. And I'm a hug fan of monsters and mythology. Especially the Headless Horseman himself.
Hey. I went to Sleepy Hollow a few days ago for Halloween, and called this vacation
"The Fright of the Century." These people took pictures of me in my Headless Horseman costume. And I was popular out there.
Been a long time since hearing this story. Forgot a little bit of it. This is one of my favorite Halloween stories from childhood. You guys did a great job telling this story💙
Always remember it from the Disney cartoon. Was born in Yonkers & my Pop pop loved to tell us all those Dutch tales of the Hudson Valley
I passed by Sleepy Hollow on the way to summer day camp at YMCA in Tarrytown for many childhood years. In late teens I knew destiny would take me far away for decades so I visited driving myself and i think girlfriend. Alone. In the evening. Quiet. Before it was made marketable. It was definitely noisy with sounds and gave an eerie feeling that i could sense someone could create a story. I don’t fear. But enjoyed the moment to take with me each time I watch something about the Headless Horseman...
My first American ancestor recorded the first history in Sleepy Hollow, the life of the Dutch in the colony of New Amsterdam (NY.)
Cool
my friend jonthan kruk the storyteller keeps me up with sightings of the headless horseman
I have a huge crush on Ichabod Crane. He's the reason Halloween is my favorite season!
The problem here is, the finicky schoolmaster who posed himself as an enlightened man of letters & an esteemed scholar was, at the same time, a gold-digging moocher only in love with Katrina Van Tassel more for her wealthy inheritance than her physical beauty, which Ichabod knew would likely fade with time, because it was made abundantly clear that all he really cared about was acquiring Katrina's hand in marriage purely so he could eventually acquire old Baltus Van Tassel's fortune for himself.
To be fair, none of the characters in THE LEGEND are really 100% likeable.
Ichabod's strongest rival for Katrina's affections was the town's braggadocios blacksmith Abraham Van Brunt, rather appropriately nicknamed Brom Bones (this was due to his prodigious strength & seemingly unmatched skill on horseback [sans a certain galloping ghoul, of course]). Brom was described as a burly & boisterous fellow who loved embellishing frightful stories (recall his supposed encounter challenging the prevailing specter to a race & Brom making the outlandish claim that he could've beaten the resident ghost had the cranium-challenged Hessian astride his demonic steed not suddenly disappeared in a flash of fire just as they neared the famous bridge that the Headless Horseman cannot cross), pulling pranks (such as rearranging everything in the schoolhouse, which caused Ichabod to think that some malevolent otherworldly force was at work) & administering practical jokes (such as having a scruffy dog howl during one of Ichabod's singing lessons, causing the ladyfolk of the town to faint due to mistaking the howling dog for Ichabod, who prided himself on a lot of his abilities, including his singing & dancing), but Brom's also got an intense jealous streak about him when he feels himself outmatched by the posturing pedagogue.
Just as Ichabod & Brom are two polarizing figures each vying for her hand, the lady fair of the story, Katrina Van Tassel -- the rich heiress of/only child to old Baltus Van Tassel, the wealthiest farmer in the region -- is no less troublesome than they are, because she intentionally stirred the embers of the smoldering rivalry between her two remaining suitors (Ichabod & Brom had each driven the rest of the men who otherwise pined for Katrina away, either by eloquence [from Ichabod] or by sheer intimidation [from Brom]), since she loved Ichabod's way with words & dancing, yet she may have become aware of the schoolmaster's more selfish motivations for wanting to marry her, which is why she ultimately rejected him & wound up marrying Brom at the end of the story following Ichabod's mysterious disappearance, since it was heavily implied that Katrina was only leading a smitten Ichabod on strictly to make Brom jealous.
My favorite version is the one in the '70s or '80s, with Jeff Goldblum.
Yes and my fav is the 1999 version
I liked reading "The Devil and Tom Walker" which was also penned by Washington Irving.
I love when I go to Connecticut I pass by sleepy hollow
Hi from Martling (Brom Bones) descendants :)
Had to do this for a school assignment😭💀
lmao what was the assignment called
Funny story, I went there with my family in 2004 just days before Halloween and no one in town knew anything about the story or characters. All of this has built up since. On our trip we stumbled on Washington Irving's home and went there but I couldn't believe they cared more that a Rockefeller had built his mansion there than the story that made the town famous.
The headless horseman sounds like a dullahan from Irish folklore.
It's always a mystery not what it seems to be. It's always a mystery just like you and me.....
He's headless and ageless 😮
i saw the Disney version first i also love the Tim Burton version
The author of the legend of sleepy hollow .must had been the king of Halloween
fascinating ...
not me learning about this in class
The Horseman Bridge highlighted here in this video is not the actual bridge. The actual bridge has now been paved over and runs in front of the cemetery. The one shown here is just a copy of what it may have looked like.
she's outside with a mask! Never forget .
1:41 This is only *one* of the theories.
Interestingly enough, Halloween is NEVER mentioned in the original story. It was actually set during the winter.
Me and my mom have a headess horse man figure at home ☠️💀🍂🍁🎃💖💞💗💓💝💟
10 generations of family has more history than America -_-
I can't believe he just said he can't think 🤔 of a more iconic character yeah I think 🤔 you better look West of the state of New York in a spot called the Midwest a place called Illinois my home state we have the most iconic Halloween 🎃 character of all time Michael Myers 🪓🪓🪓
Who is he😄
Correct
Washington Irving version not murderous bloody and gory
there are more than a few of the older films that i think are enjoyable but i am always hoping for a new definitive film version. i despise everything Tim Burton has even made and do not understand why people love his films so much.
Mr. Hairpiece doesn't know what the word Nebulus means ffs. C'mon man.