How did the headless horseman lose his head?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In the original story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", The horseman was a Hessian mercenary during the american civil war. He was decapitated by a flying cannonball and his body burred in a grave outside a church, meaning he can rise from the grave and hunt travellers.

In Tim Burton's film "Sleepy Hollow", When the horseman was alive, his head was then sliced and decapitated from his skeleton, when buried. As meaning of his skull was stolen from his grave. He lives inside the Death Tree, full of heads missing from human bodies. The horseman comes out when foggy at sun down, planning revenge for human beings, because of his stolen head. At the end of this movie, His head grows back, and never seen in Sleepy Hollow again.

Answer 3

It is a fictional story so it is not real. But I assumse the author made him do that to prove that it wasnt a man putting a pumpkin on his head and that it was actually a man without a head. And its also more intimidating holding your head instead of wearing it.

Answer 4

The American Revolution. The Headless Horseman was a Hessian (a German soldier recruited by the British to fight for them in the American Revolution).

Answer 5

Under his arm

Answer 6

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