Dead in Dutchers Mountain

Rip Van Winkle

Contents:

  • Bizarre Triple Homicide May Have Been Cult Killing
  • Grimes' Chilling Confession: 'We Played Some Scrabble, and Then I Murdered Him'
  • Crime: Two unrelated shootings occur in a Colorado hamlet where no one could recall last killing.

    • He went home, only to discover that the people there did not know him. Finally, he encountered his younger brother, who had become an old man, and learned that he had been asleep in the cave for fifty-seven years. In Christian tradition, there is a similar, well-known story of "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ", which recounts a group of early Christians who hid in a cave circa AD, to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius.

    They fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some years later during the reign of Theodosius II , to discover that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian. The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal 's German folktale " Peter Klaus ", [13] [4] which is a shorter story set in a German village.

    It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men drinking in the woods and, after drinking some of their wine, he falls asleep. When he wakes back up, twenty years have passed. In many ways, the story is a classic European faerie tale of a man who is actually rewarded for helping the faeries move their barrel.

    They advance him to a time in life where he is free of his nagging wife and is now old enough for it be respectable for him to take it easy and play with children, working when he wants to instead of when he has to, supported by his loving, grown children.

    Bizarre Triple Homicide May Have Been Cult Killing

    On a personal level, the awakened Van Winkle has gained another form of "independence": In Orkney , there is a similar folktale linked to the burial mound of Salt Knowe, adjacent to the Ring of Brodgar. A drunken fiddler on his way home hears music from the mound. He finds a way in and finds the trowes trolls having a party. He stays and plays for two hours, then makes his way home to Stenness , where he discovers 50 years have passed.

    The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay and would almost certainly have known the story. In Ireland , the story of Niamh and Oisin has a similar theme.

    Grimes' Chilling Confession: 'We Played Some Scrabble, and Then I Murdered Him'

    Stay in Touch Sign up. All three received harsh sentences: Van Winkle does not ask who they are or how they know his name. From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspiration, drawn from the wild, will fascinate animal and nature lovers alike. When he awoke, he continued searching for the sheep, but could not find it, so he returned to his father's farm, only to discover that it was under new ownership. May Learn how and when to remove this template message.

    Oisin falls in love with the beautiful Niamh and leaves with her on her snow white horse, bound for Tir Na nOg — the land of the ever-young. Missing his family and friends, he asks to pay them a visit. Niamh lends him her horse, warning him never to dismount, and he travels back to Ireland. But years have passed; his family and fellow warriors are all dead. When Oisin encounters some men trying to move a boulder, he reaches down to help them, the girth of the horse's saddle snaps, and he falls to the ground.

    Before the watching eyes of the men, he becomes a very, very old man. Author Joe Gioia suggests the basic plot strongly resembles, and may have originated with, an upstate New York Seneca legend of a young squirrel hunter who encounters the mystic "Little People", and after a night with them returns to his village to find it overgrown by forest and everyone gone: The story is also similar to the ancient Jewish Talmudic [19] story about Honi the Circle-Maker Honi M'agel , who falls asleep after asking a man why he is planting a carob tree which traditionally takes 70 years to mature, making it virtually impossible to ever benefit from the tree's fruit.

    After this exchange, Honi falls asleep on the ground, is miraculously covered by a rock, and remains out of sight for 70 years. When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and learns he has a grandson. When nobody believes that he is Honi, he prays to God, and God takes him from this world.

    The story has been adapted for other media for the last two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Rip Van Winkle disambiguation.

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    Putnam's Sons, , vol. The Life of Washington Irving.

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    The Popular Religious Context of Acts Lives of Eminent Philosophers: New York City, New York: Retrieved 21 June The Journal of New York Folklore. The Guitar and the New World: State University of New York Press. The story of the young hunter and the Great Little People, whose single night is that of a human year, became Irving's satire on progress and a portrait of the fundamental strangeness of change.

    Retrieved October 30, Archived from the original on Rip Van Winkle Introduction. Dodd, Mead and Company. Two people were found dead Wednesday in a mobile home near town, and a third body was found feet from the house. Two victims were identified as Carl Dutcher, 60, and his wife, JoAnna, 58, while the third name wasn't released.

    Authorities didn't say how they died. A year-old Guffey man was arrested in a second slaying. Mandel's attorney, Michael Thynne, said the shooting appeared to be either an act of self-defense or legal under Colorado's "Make My Day" law, which grants immunity to people who shoot intruders under certain circumstances. Thynne said Mandel shot Wainer eight times after Wainer entered his home, refused to leave, threatened to kill him and then reached for what Mandel believed to be a gun.

    He said the two had had a running feud that began months ago in a traffic dispute. Wainer had threatened Mandel in front of other people, leading Mandel to buy a gun and ask police for advice on defending himself, Thynne said.

    Wegener, who has lived in the area all his life, said he couldn't remember the last time there was a murder in Guffey. Park County's last homicide was in September.