headless horsemen
Mounted ghosts, beheaded
Headless horsemen is the plural of headless horseman—a spectral figure on horseback who lacks a head.
The image appears across folklore and literature, most famously in Washington Irving's tale of Sleepy Hollow.
The figure typically carries its severed head or hurls it at victims: Headless horsemen haunt the roads of countless ghost stories.
- ghostApparition of the dead
- scaryCausing fright
- Sleepy HollowHaunted New York hamlet
- legendaryFamous beyond ordinary measure
- specterGhostly threatening presence
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Protective spirits assigned to individuals
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