This place is said to be haunted, the apparition being a headless horseman who dashes along at a furious yet noiseless speed.
At other times he rushed along the tops of the trees on Morland Bank, a headless driver driving his coach, drawn by six headless horses in a blaze of fire.
He had no mean imagination; there is a vivid picture of a man on horseback, rider and beast recoiling in terror before the vision of the Headless Horseman of Gaythorn Plains, which is galloping across their track in the moonlight.
Amongst these was a headless group of the Virgin and Child.
Dragging him out, they beheaded him with revolting barbarity, and here he lies in the Choir, where his headless body was seen, years ago, the place of the missing head supplied with a leaden ball.
The appearance is said to be that of a man habited in black, driving a carriage drawn by headless horses.
Pinto; and to this proposal I also unwillingly acceded, reminding him, by the way, that he had not yet told me the story of the headless man.
Quonab examined the headless hen, the dust around, and uttered the word, "Mink.
For over an hour the headless body crawled, or tried to crawl, always toward the lake.
Whilst this was being done two coffins were found, and in them there were discovered two headless bodies.
Lieutenant Maxwell has also maintained that the body was not headless when found.
The evidence presented tends to show that the headless skeleton found by Mr. Goodenough could not have been that of Howe.
Two headless pins are driven into the rudder and bent down at right angles to slip into these staples.
The Turks came out and took the headless trunk, and Smith, according to the terms of the challenge, appropriated the head and presented it to General Moyses.
In the evening, before bedtime, in the vast country houses, in the poor cottages, people talk of the coach which is seen drawn by headless horses, with headless postilions and coachmen.
Now we can understand whence came the headless horses, so common in superstition, as premonitions of death.
She marched the shrinking ghost-seer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightaway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless specters beyond.
And there's a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs.
At a distance, the hill looks greener than any other part of the landscape, and has all the curved outlines of a natural hill, resembling in shape a headless sphinx, or Saddleback Mountain, as I used to see it from Lenox.
This legend may account for any crookedness of the street; for it could not reasonably be asked of a headless man that he should walk straight.
If you'd been riding, Bevis, I should certainly have taken you for theheadless horseman.
It was William who told Merle about the 'headless horseman,' a phantom rider who was reported to gallop down the road after dusk, and whom Chagmouth mothers found useful as a bogey to frighten their children with.
Another described it as a horse with an elephant's head, and a headless man seated on its back.
We must now pass on from the subject of Banshees to the kindred one of "Headless Coaches," the belief in which is widespread through the country.
Leicester Square being a horrible chaos, with the relic of an equestrian statue in the center, the king being headless and limbless, and the horse in little better condition.
Her husband, as he was likely to do, picked up the letter and finished it: Livy appoints me to finish this; but how can a headless man perform an intelligent function?
Such was one of the favorite haunts of the headless horseman, and the place where he was most frequently encountered.
Hiram with apparent astonishment, as he dropped theheadless trunk of the dog: "that was a leetle too close.
Two of the Martians were stretched headless upon the ground.
Two of these were stretched headless upon the ground.
A moment later another headless body floated past, recalling what An-Tak had told him of the skull-collecting customs of the Wieroo.
Turning quickly he saw that the thing was what he had immediately guessed it to be--a headless and wingless Wieroo corpse.
One of the last corpses to pass him was still clothed in the white robe of a Wieroo, blood-stained over the headless neck that it concealed.
He followed her to the block, and cowered, frightened, under her dress, at the fatal moment, and lay down beside her headless body when the last tragedy was over.
