"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. The concept is ancient, including the 70 year nap by Choni HaMeA-Gail. Irving, inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, wrote his story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. It was...

The favorite story of the Dutch settlement Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the sinister story of a ghost. A headless horseman watches overdue travelers. Icabod Crane, faithful to everything otherworldly, is caring for Katharina Van Tassel, a blond beauty and a daughter landowner, Baltus van Tassel. Congratulations on the autumn night, when the sovereign bridegroom returns to the bride's house, he begins to pursue the very ghost, at night looking for his lost head in battle. Since then, Ikaboda Crane has not been seen. The beautiful Katharina Van Tassel married Abraham Van Brant, who with all...