Legend & Lore | Raven Rock. Beaded Gemstone Pendant Necklace.

Legend & Lore  |  Raven Rock    “Nowhere in this part of the country are the ravens to be found, though it is thought that they may have been plentiful a century or more ago. The crows, who are known to be inveterate neighbors of their larger cousins, perhaps drove them out. Upon their exodus these birds of ill omen left their names in more than one lonely spot, to couple with dark associations." One of the most enduring ghost stories in Sleepy Hollow is that of the wailing woman of Raven Rock, a cliff located in Rockefeller State Park Preserve. We owe this ghost to author Edgar Mayhew Bacon, who recorded her legend in Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. "Raven Rock is a detached portion of the steep, rocky, eastern side of Buttermilk Hill, which a deep fissure has long separated from the mass, and the fragment, becoming independent territory, set up a mythology of its own." According to Bacon, a woman wandered off a path the night of a blinding snowstorm. She sought shelter