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Dear Readers-Happy Halloween!
Did you know, one of the most enduring Halloween legends, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has its roots in the Kabinettskriege era?
In this tale, a school teacher is chased out of town by the a ghastly apparition of a cavalrymen with no head!
Legend has it, that the headless rider was actually a Hessian soldier! (See my post on Hessians here.) According to myth, this soldier was decapitated by a cannonball, during the American War of Independence, and now roams the countryside of North America!
This legend has been continued by the new TV series, Sleepy Hollow, but that is a tale for another time!
Have a Happy Halloween, and don't let the Hessians get you!
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