Maggie Mae
Nov 26, 2005, 07:52 AM
Hey everyone,
I have a project due in my Folklore class on Wednesday. I stupidly chose a topic which may have been too difficult to complete in the short time period, but I'm giving it a whirl anyway... and I think I need your help! (Especially those of you from Germany out there reading this!)
I'm looking for the original source for Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". What I've found is that it is based on a story collected by the German folklorist Johann Karl August Musäus in the mid to late 1700s. So far I've been tremendously unsuccessful in finding that story, but because I don't speak German I'm sure it isn't helping since most of my search results have included German text! I have Musäus' collection of folktales (a book called "Marchen und Sagen") in which I'm sure I'd find the folktale. However I can't find a single source that names the actual story in that collection which Irving adapted his story from, so I have little to go on.
If any of you know which story this is or where I might start looking for it (preferably in English), that would be wonderful and I would be forever in your debt!!!
Danke!
Lindsay
I have a project due in my Folklore class on Wednesday. I stupidly chose a topic which may have been too difficult to complete in the short time period, but I'm giving it a whirl anyway... and I think I need your help! (Especially those of you from Germany out there reading this!)
I'm looking for the original source for Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". What I've found is that it is based on a story collected by the German folklorist Johann Karl August Musäus in the mid to late 1700s. So far I've been tremendously unsuccessful in finding that story, but because I don't speak German I'm sure it isn't helping since most of my search results have included German text! I have Musäus' collection of folktales (a book called "Marchen und Sagen") in which I'm sure I'd find the folktale. However I can't find a single source that names the actual story in that collection which Irving adapted his story from, so I have little to go on.
If any of you know which story this is or where I might start looking for it (preferably in English), that would be wonderful and I would be forever in your debt!!!
Danke!
Lindsay