Headless Horseman (1999)

"The horseman was a Hessian mercenary, sent to these shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England, but unlike his compatriots who came for money, the Horseman came for the love of carnage. When battle was joined, there you'd find him. He rode a giant black steed named Daredevil. He was infamous for riding his horse hard into battle, chopping off heads at full gallop. He had filed his teeth down to sharp points to add to the ferocity of his appearance. This butcher didn't finally reach his end...until the year of '79, not far from here in our Western Woods. They chopped off his head with his own sword, even today the Western Woods is a haunted place, where brave men will not venture. For what was planted in the ground that day.. was a seed of evil."

- Baltus van Tassel describing the horseman and his past brutality.

The Headless Horseman is the secondary antagonist of the 1999 movie, Sleepy Hollow. Played by actor Christopher Walken.

He starts out as a hessian mercenary, sent to fight in the Amercian Revolutionary War. As he is hiding from his enemies, he encounters two little girls, one of whom was Lady Van Tassel, who gives him away. At his death, she sells her soul to the devil, that he would raise the headless hessian from the dead and use him to avenge her family.

Near the end, Icahbod gives the horseman back his head and takes Lady Van Tassel back to hell with him.