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Headless Horseman
The headless horseman has been a motif of European folklore since at least the Middle Ages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Headless Horseman )〕
==In Celtic folklore==
The Irish ''dullahan'' or ''dulachán'' ("dark man") is a headless fairy, usually riding a black horse and carrying his head under his inner lower thigh (or holding it high to see at great distance). He wields a whip made from a human corpse's spine. When the ''dullahan'' stops riding, a death occurs. The dullahan calls out a name, at which point the named person immediately dies.〔(The Dullahan – Ireland's Headless Horseman ) at Scary For Kids〕 In another version, he is the headless driver of a black carriage.〔(The Dullahan ) at Shee-eire.com〕 A similar figure, the ''gan ceann'' ("without a head"), can be frightened away by wearing a gold object or putting one in his path.〔McKillop, James ''A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'', 2004, cited at ''(gan ceann )'', encyclopedia.com〕
The most prominent Scottish tale of the headless horseman concerns a man named Ewen decapitated in a clan battle at Glen Cainnir on the Isle of Mull. The battle denied him any chance to be a chieftain, and both he and his horse are headless in accounts of his haunting of the area.〔Fox, David (The Headless Horseman ) at Federated Caledonian Societies South Africa〕
''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' is a Middle English poem that involves a decapitation myth.〔"Sir Gawain And The Green Knight", Page 194, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9 Ed., Volume A: The Middle Ages〕
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