Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow
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In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
FictionShort storiesChildren's stories, AmericanHistoryRip Van Winkle (Fictitious character)Juvenile fictionSleepTeachersGhostsHeadless Horseman (Fictitious character)ChangeCatskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)