{"id":840,"date":"2010-10-15T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=840"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:20:29","slug":"creature-feature-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2010\/10\/15\/creature-feature-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-moser-headless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-843\" title=\"Headless Horseman\" alt=\"Headless Horseman\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2010\/10\/Headless-Horseman-620x1024.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Headless Horseman; wood engraving by Barry Moser<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has dawned on me, a bit late, that we have a wealth of creepy images in the archives that might be nice lead-ins to that glorious hootenanny called <strong>Halloween<\/strong>.\u00a0 Over the next two weeks, we will try to post as many of these as we can in addition to our regular posts.<\/p>\n<p>Creature Feature No. 1 is <strong>The Headless Horseman<\/strong> from Washington Irving&#8217;s <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/em>.\u00a0 An eerie excerpt from the book describes the Horseman:<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head.\u00a0 It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war, and who is ever and anon seen by various of the country people, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind&#8230;and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Headless Horseman; wood engraving by Barry Moser It has dawned on me, a bit late, that we have a wealth of creepy images in the archives that might be nice lead-ins to that glorious hootenanny called Halloween.\u00a0 Over the next two weeks, we will try to post as many of these as we can&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2010\/10\/15\/creature-feature-no-1\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-collections","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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