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The Headless Horseman is an unlockable Book of Fables entry in The Wolf Among Us, earned for examining the statue of him in Crane's apartment during "A Crooked Mile." He is based on the main antagonist of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Book of Fables entry
"Thought to be the spirit of a particularly fearsome, especially macabre German military contractor, the Headless Horseman lost his head from cannon fire during the Revolutionary War. Most famous for hounding Ichabod Crane one night in the woods of Sleepy Hollow, it is rumored that this phantom is only the most recent incarnation of a primordial demon, whose previous forms include a Middle-Aged chieftain who brandished a whip made from human bone, and a Scottish lord who was decapitated in a fight over shares of land."
Appearances
- "A Crooked Mile" (statue)
- "In Sheep's Clothing" (statue)
Trivia
Bigby Wolf uses this statuette to kill Ichabod Crane in Fables #22 — "Cinderella Libertine." In the comic, it is a headless statuette of Napoleon Bonaparte. To be precise, both sculptures are modeled after the famous 1801 oil painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps, created by renowned French artist Jacques-Louis David.[1]
References
- ↑ Zaczek, Ian. Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Encyclopædia Britannica. Napoleon Crossing the Alps, oil equestrian portrait by celebrated French artist Jacques-Louis David that was completed in 1801."