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The Headless Horseman

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A few of the words

HUDSON
The river runs past the real Dutch farm country Irving wrote about. The village of North Tarrytown took the name Sleepy Hollow in 1996, and the old Dutch church is still there.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HESSIAN
In the story the horseman is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, a German soldier hired by the British, who lost his head to a cannonball in the Revolutionary War.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CROSBY
Bing Crosby narrated and sang the 1949 Disney version, including the jaunty song about Ichabod's appetite and the girls of the village.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Headless Horseman word search, free and printable, set on a dark road in Sleepy Hollow where a pumpkin sails out of the night.

About The Headless Horseman

Washington Irving published the story in 1820, in The Sketch Book, and set it among the Dutch farms along the Hudson near Tarrytown, New York. It's a tale of harvest tables and ghost stories told by the fire, and then a long ride home through the woods past the old church. Disney gave it a second life in 1949, pairing it with Mr. Toad and letting Bing Crosby sing and narrate the whole thing.

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