Dark Stallion of Sleepy Hollow * 2009

The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region,and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air,is the apparition of a figure on horseback,without a head His haunts are not confined to the valley,but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance
Indeed,certain of the most authentic historians of those parts,who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre,allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard,the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head,and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow,

like a midnight blast,is owing to his being belated,and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak
Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition,
which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows;and the spectre is known at all the country firesides,by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow