I assume you're all familiar with the greatest Halloween story, published by Washington Irving in 1820First up, the Old Dutch Church, where Ichabod Crane was fleeing on horseback as he was being chased by the headless horseman He crossed the Pocantico River (more like a creek) next to the church, just yards away from safetyThe headless horseman, a spirit, could not cross water and could only throw a pumpkin head at Ichabod
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>>41391721While the headless horseman is cool and based AF, there is a long tradition of people having their head cut off and still acting normalIt goes back to at least the 8th century in the Feast of Bricriu where a giant challenges men to cut off his head, on condition he can return the next night and do the same to themWhen the giant's head was cut off, he just picks it up and walks outA more famous version is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where a massive knight, all green, appears at King Arthur's court and makes the same challengeSir Gawain cuts off the knight's head, the knight bends down and picks his head up, and laughs and says Gawain is to come to his church in one year and one day when the knight gets his turn
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>>41388514But what if it WASN'T Brom Bones?
>>41388514>The headless horseman, a spirit, could not cross water and could only throw a pumpkin head at IchabodI like the Depp movie where he uses a cross on a rope to harpoon people in the church lol
>>41394254Kek.>>41391789>there is a long tradition of people having their head cut off and still acting normalWhich is why it was baked into the human psyche to burn the body after decapitation. We used to have real fun here, ages ago.
