The topic of this week’s The History Twins podcast is “Hulda: The Other Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, and storytelling duo Carla and Keyes discuss Hulda of Bohemia, the sharpshooting witch who is said to have saved Sleepy Hollow, New York during the Revolutionary War.

Each fall, tens of thousands of people from around the world flock to Sleepy Hollow in Hudson Valley, New York to visit the burial ground made famous in Washington Irving’s 1819 tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. In Irving’s tale of the Headless Horseman, a German soldier is said to return to the gravesite, in search of his head that was lost during America’s Revolutionary War.

The famous graveyard was also known for another resident, Hulda of Bohemia, a woman who lived in Sleepy Hollow during the 1770’s. In Edgar Mayhew Bacon’s 1897 book Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, he mentioned the woman whose basket weaving and healing abilities led to her being shunned as witch, while her skills as a sharpshooter made her a Revolutionary War hero.

Carla and Keyes discuss their presentation of Hulda: The Other Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as the research and creative process that went into their performance. Their presentation is performed throughout October at The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. This presentation is also being presented at various locations in the Westchester Public Library System under the name Hulda: The Witch of the Revolution.

Carla and Keyes also discuss the research and creative process that went into their presentation of Hulda: The Other Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which is performed throughout October at The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. This presentation is also being presented at various locations of the Westchester Public Library System under the name Hulda: The Witch of the Revolution.

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