145: Halloween Special 2023: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“If I can but reach that bridge,” thought Ichabod, “I am safe.” This is the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his ride home after an evening spent trying to woo Katrina Van Tassel at a party hosted by her father at their idyllic farm in rural New York. It’s a terrifying ride–perhaps as deadly as Ichabod’s pursuer is headless. For this third HTDS Halloween special, we “rewind” to one of the oldest ghost stories in American lore: Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Starting with a headless Germanic tale, we’ll hear some of the literary history behind the stories of headless riders on horseback; get a brief bio on this year’s featured author; and then … we’ll see if we can reach that covered bridge before it’s too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My old bed is sleep depriving so to Dunell
0:07.0	I'll go for a new one that's great to lion can't wait to climb in.
0:15.0	Shop our range of bedroom furniture and mattresses plus bedding from six pounds
0:22.0	and find everything you want all under one
0:24.4	roof at Dunell the home of homes shopping store and online.
0:29.4	History that doesn't suck as a bi-weekly podcast delivering a
0:32.8	legit seriously researched hard-hitting survey of American history through
0:35.7	entertaining stories. If you'd like to support H.TDS or enjoy bonus content,
0:39.6	please consider giving at patreon.com forward slash history that doesn't suck.
0:43.8	It's a summer's afternoon sometime in the mid to late 1700s, though the exact date is unimportant.
0:57.0	After all, legends do not concern themselves with such chronological specificities.
1:02.0	But legend does provide a location.
1:04.6	Where Prussian ruled Saliza,
1:06.3	traveling a country road in a horse-drawn carriage.
1:09.7	Our passengers are four women.
1:12.1	The Countess, Cecilia, her two coming-of-age daughters, and
1:15.9	their maid Mrs. Abigail. Their destination is the Holy Roman Empire ruled Kingdom
1:21.0	of Bohemia's famous spa town,
1:23.6	Carlsbad or Parlovivivari.
1:27.2	It's some 200 miles away across the giant mountains,
1:30.5	but the Countess is terribly impatient to arrive.
1:33.6	And so, seated on the coach box, her faithful but unnamed driver urges the horses onward
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