Headless Horseman

English 200px|right|thumb|Cover page to Mayne Reid's version of the legend, published in 1865 Alternative forms en headless horseman Proper noun Headless Horseman 1 A mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head. Derived terms en Headless Horsewoman Translations mythical figure Danish: da hovedløs rytter c Dutch: nl ruiter zonder hoofd m chiefly associated with Washington Irving Finnish: fi päätön ratsumies French: fr cavalier sans tête m German: de kopfloser Reiter m Polish: pl jeździec bez głowy m-pr Romanian: ro călăreț fără cap m Spanish: es jinete sin cabeza m Noun Headless Horseman Headless Horsemen A mythical man (perhaps of several) upon horseback who is missing his head, inspired by the Headless Horseman mythical figure. en 2006 Lindsey R. Hall The Net Warriors Trafford Publishing 9781466944220 The zone is normally the site of the battle with the headless horsemen, where you would have had to kill at least 100 to move on. The horsemen arestill here butarein the orchard picking apple points. We shall be OK providedwe stick to ... en 2012 Drac Von Stoller The Headless Horsemen Drac Von Stoller 9781301708031 The three headless horsemen fired back at the Smith and Wesson brothers killing them. Then the three headless horsemen threw the Smith and Wesson brother's dead bodies on the back of their horses and rode back to the mountain and cut ... en 2016 Mark Latham Hunting the Headless Horseman The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc 9781508173847 36 Though the Legend of Sleepy Hollow has remained the most enduring and famous tale of headless horsemen, Irving's research revealed to him that decollated spirits have roamed the earth since ancient times. In each case they appear to be ... en slang A corpse of a man that is missing the head due to decapitation. en 2003 Laurence Gonzales Deep Survival: Who Lives, who Dies, and why : True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death W. W. Norton & Company 9780393052763 39 They had dozens of names for different types of corpses—“crispy critters,” “stinkers,” “floaters,” “dunkers,” and “Headless Horsemen,” just to name a few. Butch Farabee, national emergency services coordinator for the National Park .. en 2012 Gregg Hurwitz You're Next St. Martin's Press 9781250005892 83 ... of women who'd been murdered in 1980 and unclaimed bodies that had turned up for years after that. He'd become acquainted with a virtual dictionary of shrug-off terms for corpses - floaters, crispy critters, headless horsemen. en 2021 Peter James Ford Mysticism in Newburyport: Mystic Rider Balboa Press 9781982271954 Right around this time another headless body was found, I used to call these bodies they were finding at that time, 'The Headless Horsemen'. Cutting off the heads of suspected informants does send a clear message. Derived terms en Headless Horsewoman en Death Characters from folklore Horses Mythological figures Stock characters