06/14/2026
☠️🗡️ Watch Yer Head!! 🗡️☠️
Before the popular ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ by Washington Irving, there was the Dullahan, a terrifying type of Fae from Irish folklore believed to have inspired many of the headless horseman stories, and has no specific gender 🌈🎃
The Dullahan rides a black horse or carriage while carrying their own severed head beneath one arm. They carry a whip made from a human spine to whip the eyes out of onlookers! When they stop riding, someone nearby is destined to die, they don’t speak much but if they call a person’s name, their fate is sealed 🕯️⚰️
In folklore, their wagon is adorned with funeral relics!
As with most of my drawings, I drew a lot of little details, including a pet crow, lanterns, bells, chains (so you’d hear them coming), rosemary sprigs (a herb associated with death and also my fave), a whimsical death clock, bones of victims, and bits of wood and little buddies collected along their travels. 🐦⬛🕷️⛓️💥
The layers of colours may look like paint on paint, but I thought it would be cool to represent the colours of the souls (or auras) the Dullahan has taken over the years!
Swipe for terrifying details and keep your gold close by! ⚜️
