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The Original Headless Horseman Monstrum
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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateStoried • ↓ More info below ↓ • Don’t miss future episodes of Monstrum, subscribe! http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub • The Irish Dullahan not only helped inspire The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but as Dr. Zarka will show, they are much scarier than Washington Irving’s monster. • These headless monsters of Celtic lore are connected to horses, carriages, and graveyards—and they cannot be defeated. Oscar Wilde even called them “the most terrible thing in the world.” • The dullahan can be male or female, but they are always headless, a characteristic that makes sense given Ireland’s social and religious history. Ultimately this monster is a personification of death, a monster that reminds us all not to “lose our heads” in more ways than one. #dullahan #headlesshorseman #MonstrumPBS • Written and Hosted by: Emily Zarka • Director: David Schulte • Executive Producer: Amanda Fox • Producer: Stephanie Noone • Illustrator: Samuel Allen • Editor: Dano Johnson • Sound Design: Kirby Meador • Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. • Follow us on Instagram: • / monstrumpbs • ----------- • BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. Brom Bones and Ichabod. The New • York Public Library Digital Collections, 1864. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/it... • Bitel, Lisa. “Secrets of the Síd: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts.” Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom, ed. Michael Ostling, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 79-101. • Borsje, Jacqueline. “Human Sacrifice in Medieval Irish Literature.” The Strange World of Human Sacrifice, ed. Jan N. Bremmer, Lueven, Belgium ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2007. • Bürger, Gottfried August. The Wild Huntsman, a poem from the German of bürger, 1797 • Burns, Robert. Alloway kirk; or Tam o’Shanter: A Tale ,1790. • Burnstein, Andrew. The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, Basic Books, 2007. • Carty, Niamh. “‘The Halved Heads’: Osteological Evidence for Decapitation in Medieval • Ireland.” Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 25 (1), 2015. • Croker, Thomas Crofton. Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland, 1825. • Edwards, David. “Some days two heads and some days four.” History Ireland, Issue 1, vol. 17, Jan/Feb 2009, pp. 18-21. • Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. W.B. Yeats, 1888. • Frankfurter, David. “The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt.” Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom, ed. Michael Ostling, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 57-78. • Heath, William. Memoirs of Major General William Heath, 1901. • Irving, P. Monroe. The life and letters of Washington Irving, Volume I, 1862. • Irving, Washington. The Complete Tales of Washington Irving, ed. Charles Neider, 1975. • Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. • O’Hanlon, John. “A Legend of Murrisk.” Legend Lays of Ireland, 1870. • Palmer, Patricia. “‘An headlesse Ladie’ and ‘a horses loade of heades’: writing the beheading.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1, 2007, pp. 25-57. • Wilde, Oscar. Essays, Criticisms and Reviews, 1901.
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