<P> The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm (Deutsche Sagen) recount two German folk tales of a headless horseman being spotted with their own eyes . </P> <P> One is set near Dresden in Saxony . In this tale, a woman from Dresden goes out early one Sunday morning to gather acorns in a forest . At a place called "Lost Waters", she hears a hunting horn . When she hears it again, she turns around and she sees a headless man in a long grey coat sitting on a grey horse . </P> <P> In another German tale, set in Brunswick in Lower Saxony, a headless horseman called "the wild huntsman" blows a horn to warn hunters not to ride the next day, because they will meet with an accident . </P> <P> In some German versions of the headless horseman, he seeks out the perpetrators of capital crimes . In others, he has a pack of black hounds with tongues of fire . </P>

Where did the legend of the headless horseman come from