GC18MZ0 NOLY - Headless Horseman (Traditional Cache) in Gauteng, South Africa created by eragonSaphira

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GC18MZ0 ▼

A cache by eragonSaphira Message this owner

Hidden : 1/15/2008

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache was placed as part of the Neighbour of Leap Year's day Bash Event. The cache is a 35mm micro container, hidden in a spot that reminded us of the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". If you would like to read the legend of Sleepy Hollow, you can find it here

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued down a spooky tree-lined avenue by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head." Crane disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related." The location of this cache reminds strongly of the setting of this tale, and the cache itself is located in a slight dip in the road. One can easily imagine the Horseman catching up with poor Ichabod on this specific spot, on a cold autumn night.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)