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THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN AND THE HEARTLESS SCHOOLMASTER: The Sin Of Sleepy Hollow | #COTU
01 November 2026

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN AND THE HEARTLESS SCHOOLMASTER: The Sin Of Sleepy Hollow | #COTU

Church of the Undead

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has a pumpkin, a headless Hessian, and a schoolmaster everybody feels sorry for. Disney gave us a lovable Ichabod Crane and Tim Burton gave us a hero. Washington Irving's schoolmaster was a different man than most of us remember, and the author had other plans for him than we remember too… right down to the last page and how his story ends.

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