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Superstitions and the Specter of the Headless Horseman
Superstitions about Sleepy Hollow’s haunted night scenes dominate local anecdotes. The legendary Headless Horseman—a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War, cursed to haunt the town—becomes the embodiment of dark fears. Tales of its ghostly rides and the spectral terror it inflicts are shared with vivid detail, with some claiming to have seen or narrowly escaped the Headless Horseman’s wrath.