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American composer George Whitefield Chadwick wrote a concert overture titled Rip Van Winkle in 1879, when he was a student in Leipzig. American Doom metal band Witch performs a song titled "Rip Van Winkle" detailing the story in song form. American Doo-wop band The Devotions released their novelty single "Rip Van Winkle" in 1961 on Delta Records.
The story provides a Jewish version on the theme of a person or persons (as the Seven Sleepers) sleeping for many decades and waking to find a changed world—a theme originating in the story of Epimenides—found in many divergent cultures and traditions, and in modern times associated especially with the Rip Van Winkle story.
Rip Van Winkle is the foremost familiar example, although strictly speaking this cannot be called a "folktale", since it is a fictional work by Washington Irving loosely based on folklore. [113] Nevertheless, Urashima has been labeled the "Japanese Rip van Winkle", even in academic folkloristic literature. [114] "
A related motif is the "Seven Sleepers" (D 1960.1, [2] also known as the "Rip Van Winkle" motif), whose type tale is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (AT tale type 766). General features [ edit ]
"Der Ziegenhirt" has been translated into English a number of times: "Peter Klaus, the Goatherd" translated by Thomas Roscoe for The German Novelists (1826) "Peter the Goatherd" translated by Edgar Taylor for German Popular Stories volume 2 (1826) – one of only four stories in this book not by the Brothers Grimm
The first installment, containing "Rip Van Winkle", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work was equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York and in two volumes in London ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared in the sixth issue of the New York edition and the second volume of the London edition ...
Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. [1]
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