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keep researching!
Aug 26 2012, 11:34 PM EDT
-.- The headless Horse Man is based off of the Dullahan, which is from irish folk lore. It's a nasty character, the whip is made of human spines, the head is disgusting and has a huge grin on it's face. It's wagon ( which they use sometimes) have candles, human bones, and the covering is ancient pall that has been chewed on by bugs. where ever it stops, the person is due to die there, if the persons name is called by the Dullahan, it's instant death. No locks can bar them, they do not like being watched ( the punishments can be gruesome) but gold in any size is what they fear.
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1. wondering
Oct 16 2012, 10:12 AM EDT
I'v read a lot about this guy too, but one thing wonders me, he was somekind of an duke in england? if i correctly remember, he went don't king arthurs hall and got his head severed, but still carries it with him, so why is it like a pumpkin with a grin? why not just an badass ************ helmet?
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Nov 12 2012, 10:03 AM EST
In Scottish myth, he was a man named Ewen who was decapitated in a clan battle at Glen Cainnir on the Isle of Mull. Falling in battle cost him any chance he had of becoming chieftain though, so he continues to wander. In all reports of his sightings, however, both the horseman and his horse have been headless.The Middle English Poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" uses the Arthurian story of beheading whereby Sir Gawain of the Knights of the Round Table accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight", who had challenged any of the knights to strike him with his axe if they would allow to take his strike a year and a day from then. Gawain's strike beheads the Green Knight, but he stands again, takes up his head and reminds Sir Gawain of their future appointment. Neither tale mentions pumpkins, though. Those are additions made by others. Given that the lore for the headless horseman spreads throughout the British Isles as well as the rest of Europe, and the USA the stories are bound to change. There is one story where he was merely a criminal, tied upright on his horse, left to be taken wherever his horse felt like wandering and now only kills those who outright deserve it. As for his helmet: you're assuming he was wearing one to begin with. :P Do you find this valuable? |
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3. RE: keep researching!
Aug 23 2013, 10:52 AM EDT
Shut up u little **** u made up dat story so u could get attention I've always been into this figure for about 8 years and I found out that there is Scottish and there is Irish tales ( but ures us utter BS) and the most common and where research can prove that sleepy hollow tarrytown Ny was the original legend was born in fact his grave of the charecter is there so legend has it he was A captain of hessein soldiers and he was leading his men Into the battle of charts in hill when a cannon blue of his head and his sword access nty plunged into his horses heart and they died together may I also mettion he was a horse lover and that was his childhood horse they lived to get her and died together and every night on Halloween eve him and his horses spirit rise from the grave in search of his head and he ALWAYS uses a pumkin head to scare off his engines (as if a headless guy riding a zombie horse ain't enough) and if ANYONE stands in his way or commits a crime he gallops towards them and cuts of their heads Do you find this valuable? |
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4. RE: keep researching!
Aug 23 2013, 10:55 AM EDT
I HATE spell check lol
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