Lady Mary Van Tassel is a fictional character played by British actress Miranda Richardson in Tim Burton’s 1999 gothic horror film Sleepy Hollow. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958 is an English stage film and television actress. Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25 1958 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and Set designer, notable for the quirky Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 period Horror film directed by Tim Burton, interpreting the legend of The Headless Horseman
Character Details
- Full Name: Lady Mary Van Tassel, nee Preston (real name Archer)
- Born: 1765-70?
- Died: December 1799
Plot Details
It is 1799, and in a few months it will be the turn of the new century. Ichabod Crane, a New York constable, has been ordered by his superiors to investigate a series of beheadings in Sleepy Hollow, an isolated North American farming community, adjacent to the Hudson River. Ichabod Crane is a Fictional character in Washington Irving 's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820 New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami For Crane, this is his chance to use his new-fangled theories and scientific tools which will, hopefully, help him to solve the crime and identify the murderer.
On his arrival on Halloween, Crane is greeted by the eccentric chief citizen Baltus Van Tassel, his welcoming daughter Katrina Van Tassel, and the restrained Lady Van Tassel, all of whom are present a party held in their manor to try and distract the villagers’ from the gruesome happenings in Sleepy Hollow. Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a Holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is a Short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is a Short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent Crane is invited to stay in the Van Tassel Manor. The villagers, among them Baltus; Doctor Thomas Lancaster, Reverend Steenwyck, Notary James Hardenbrook and Magistrate Samuel Philipse, believe the "man" behind these murders is in fact the restless ghost of the grim Headless Horseman, a ruthless Hessian mercenary sent to Sleepy Hollow to "keep Americans under the yoke of England". The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by American author Washington Irving. A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He famously butchered his victims.
Lady Van Tassel is a very attractive woman, and is much younger than her husband. We learn from ‘The Van Tassel Family Tree’ (shown in a book, in the film) that her maiden name was Preston, and this is never disputed, or even discussed in the film until the conclusion.
Lady Van Tassel, apart from a few brief reaction shots with no dialogue, mainly lurks in the background for the first part of the film, and does not reappear until after Crane has been stabbed with the Horseman’s sword. A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a reciprocal Conversation between two or more entities. Slicing an apple with a knife, Lady Van Tassel tells Crane that the servant girl, Sarah (who had made a few short appearances) had left Sleepy Hollow in fear, following in the footsteps of ‘so many others’.
When Crane hears footsteps downstairs in the manor, he decides to follow but is taken aback by what he sees. Peering through a gap in the trees, Crane is bewildered when he sees Lady Van Tassel in a compromising situation with Reverend Steenwyck. She then pulls a knife from her side and slices her hand. The next day, Lady Van Tassel confronts Crane in the kitchen, begging him not to tell Baltus what he saw through the trees. The conversation is sharply interrupted by the emergence of Baltus, with news of the Notary’s suicide. By this point in the film, Magistrate Philipse has been decapitated by the Horseman. When Baltus notices the cut on Lady Van Tassel’s hand, she promptly lies by saying she was ‘careless with the kitchen knife’.
While picking arrowroot flowers just outside the Western Woods to help heal her wound, Lady Van Tassel is crept upon by the Horseman, his sword unsheathed and ready to strike. Arrowroot, or obedience plant ( Maranta arundinacea) is a large perennial Herb of genus Maranta found in Rainforest Baltus, horror stricken, rides speedily to the church (where a meeting is being held to determine if Crane should go back to New York), to tell his daughter that Lady Van Tassel has been killed. When the Horseman appears at the church window, the congregation are in peril and frantically try to avoid the Horseman’s axe. When Doctor Lancaster loses his nerve and is just about to tell Baltus the truth about the murders, Reverend Steenwyck strikes him cold by pounding him on the head with a heavy cross. Baltus subsequently shoots Steenwyck in a mad rage, and later gets stabbed in the stomach by a wooden stake by the Horseman, dragged through the glass window and then decapitated.
By this point in the film, Crane suspects Katrina, as she is the only member of the Van Tassel clan left alive, but on his exit from Sleepy Hollow after seeing Lady Van Tassel’s body being dragged off a cart, he notices that the pink circles Katrina drew on the floor in his bedroom and in the church before are not of dark magic but good; he storms into the late Doctor Lancaster’s house to see Lady Van Tassel’s body. Observing that the cut on her hand had not healed, Crane realizes that the body is not Lady Van Tassel’s, and he jumps into the horse-and-carriage waiting outside.
Meanwhile, at the Van Tassel manor, Katrina is sitting in an armchair motionless. Moments later, she is startled by a shadow behind her and stands to face Lady Van Tassel who punctually spits ‘You look as if you’ve seen a ghost’. Now with grim, sarcastic humour, Lady Van Tassel is revealed as the cause of all the murders. After summoning the horseman from the grave, this time to kill Katrina, she begins to tell her stepdaughter everything, starting with the fact that she used the servant girl Sarah’s body (Lady Van Tassel killed her herself) as her own to disguise the fact she wasn’t really dead.
Lady Van Tassel reveals that her real name is Mary Archer, and that she, her mother and younger sister were evicted from their small cottage by their landlord, Peter Van Garrett after her father’s death. They were then rendered homeless because her mother was suspected of witchcraft. Homelessness is the condition and social category of people who lack housing because they cannot afford or are otherwise unable to maintain regular safe and adequate shelter Witchcraft, in various historical anthropological religious and mythological contexts is the use of certain kinds of Supernatural or magical powers After her mother’s death, she and her sister crossed paths with the Headless Horseman while collecting firewood in their refuge in the Western Woods. On that day, she offered her soul to Satan, and swore she would make herself mistress of all that Peter Van Garrett had. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living Satan, ( Standard Hebrew Satan'el, English accuser) is a term that originates from the Abrahamic faiths, being traditionally She disguised herself as a sick nurse, murdering Baltus’ first wife, and, within months, becoming his second in 1797. Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
With the Horseman's help, Van Tassel got revenge against all those who she felt had wronged her: Peter Van Garrett; his son Dirk; Van Garrett's secret wife, Emily Winship; their unborn child; his loyal servant Jonathan Masbath; Magistrate Philipse, who gave him the protection of the law; the Killians, who knew of Winship’s secret; and Notary Hardenbrook, who concealed the marriage documents and Van Garrett’s will leaving everything to Winship. Revenge (also vengeance, retribution, or vendetta amongst others consists primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property She also managed to keep Reverend Steenwyck quiet by having sex with him, make Magistrate Philipse drunk enough to follow her instructions, and Doctor Lancaster with blackmail; Van Tassel knew he was having an affair with the servant girl, Sarah. Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public a family member or associates unless a demand made upon the Magistrate Philipse clued Crane about Widow Winship's child after Jonathan Masbeth's, so the Horseman was sent to kill him the other night. Notary Hardenkbrook was too scared to tell anyone what he knew. Van Tassel also killed her sister, the Western Woods Crone (who helped Crane find the Horseman’s resting place beneath the roots of The Tree of the Dead. )
After chasing the Horseman on Crane and Katrina’s tails, she reappeared, only to be knocked out with a wooden log. She is later taken by the Horseman who kisses her making her bleed and then goes with her back to his grave with Lady Van Tassel's arm left hovering from a crevice in the tree, sometime in December 1799, days before the turn of the century. Events in December Union Day of Romania (1 December World AIDS Day ( December 1) National Day of Year 1799 ( MDCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
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