Talk:Headless Horseman (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

Redirect?
This article purports to be about the character from the novel. If all other media references were removed, presumably because they are covered in other articles listed on the disambiguation page, then there wouldn't be much left that isn't already covered by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.--otherlleft (talk) 15:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The fact remains that the info found here isn't found in the Sleepy Hollow article. If you want to merge the articles, that would be another proposition, but to delete an entire article for a rederect, needs actual discussion between more than just 2 editors. Unless of course the rederect was a way of getting people's attention, then it worked. Many characters get their own articles, so if anything, this article needs to imporved and expanded, not deleted.--RossF18 (talk) 18:02, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well I don't think implementing the redirecting 10 months after suggesting it and getting no response was excessively bold, but I am glad to finally get the discussion about this article's notability started.--otherlleft 21:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, the reality of wikipedia and tracking many articles, and certain things can fall through the cracks. I'm just saying that we may expand this article so that it's inline with other character based articles or move the information to other pages, instead of blanking this page entirely. Right now, yes, the article seems mostly pulling of things rather than an article actually devoted to the Headless Horseman article, though that's what I think the intention was.--RossF18 (talk) 18:29, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Background
In the background section I believe the the historical detail, as presented by Washington Irving in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is stretched by saying that the Hessian was one of 55 killed at the battle of Chatterton, by an American cannon ball. It's a minor point but important if talking about the book from which that passage comes from. In the story the description is vague about his origins and the identity of the cannon ball that decapitated him. There is even some ambiguity over whether he truly is a Hessian soldier: "It is said by some to be the ghost of Hessian trooper whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball in some nameless battle of the Revolutionary War..." Later on it says that historians "...allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forward to the scene of battle in a nightly quest of his head...". Hessian soldiers fought in many battles along the Hudson River. It is possible Irving had this specific battle in mind when writing the book but there should be a verifiable citation to back it up. I don't know of any and am concerned that this bit of detail was not connected to Irving's inspirations or motives for the story. Ianulimac (talk) 02:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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