Handbook of rip van winkle

He suspects the men played a trick on him, but when he returns to the amphitheater, he finds an impenetrable wall of stone, as if it had never been there. As he plods back down the way he came, he finds a river rushing down the dry bed he had climbed just a day before.

Rattled, Rip starts the hike down. Back in the village, everyone is dressed strangely. Rip recognizes no one. The villagers seem shocked at his appearance too—they stroke their chins when they see him, and when Rip mirrors the gesture, he realizes his beard has grown a foot long.

Most distressingly, he finds his house empty and run down, though Dame Van Winkle had always kept it in good order. Even Wolf, now old and mean, growls at him. The quiet little Dutch inn, too, has been transformed. People bustle about and argue about politics—a scene nothing like the lazy afternoons Rip remembers. His friends Vedder and Van Bummel are nowhere to be found.

As Rip names his friends, he learns that they all died in the war or left the village for better opportunities. When he claims he is Rip Van Winkle, the villagers pipe up that Rip Van Winkle is over there—and Rip sees a young man who looks strikingly like him, lazing about just as he did.

Rip starts to doubt his identity and even his sanity. Rip notices a pretty woman with a child in the crowd. He strikes up a conversation with her and discovers that she is his daughter, Judith Gardenier. She tells him that his wife Dame Van Winkle died a short time ago. An old woman finally recognizes Rip as Rip Van Winkle, the man who disappeared 20 years prior; the oldest person in the village, Peter Vanderdonk, confirms it.

Peter tells the crowd that every 20 years, Hendrick Hudson , who first discovered the area, returns to haunt the Kaatskills. One day, Rip wanders off into the woods to escape his nagging wife.

Hearing thunder, he unwittingly follows the ghosts of Henry Hudson's men deep into the wilderness. As the men play nine-pins, Rip imbibes a "magic potion" - quietly falling into a deep sleep. He wakens 20 years later, his beard grown long and his beloved dog, Wolf, nowhere to be found.

Rip makes his way back into the village and discovers that the American Revolution has taken place. He is no longer recognizable, nor does he know any of the townspeople who greet him. Rip's luck holds out and it isn't long before he finds his place among his grown children — though much of his family has passed on — and resumes his habitual idleness.

His tale is repeated and solemnly taken to heart by hen-pecked husbands who wish they could have shared in Rip's good fortune and slept through the atrocities of war. From the pages of Irving's cautionary tale, the sense of adventure and intrigue have taken on a life of their own. Rip accepteert haar aanbod van een alcoholische drank en valt meteen in slaap.

Als hij 20 jaar later wakker wordt, is hij een oude man met een lange witte baard; de dwergen zijn nergens te bekennen. Rip Van Winkle valt in slaap na het drinken van een mysterieuze sterke drank die hem wordt aangeboden door een even vreemde groep mannen. Rip Van Winkle viel twintig jaar in slaap nadat hij de betoverde drank had gedronken die hem werd aangeboden door een groep mysterieuze mannen uit de Catskills. Op een dag raakte een man, gekweld door de ergernis van zijn vrouw, verdwaald in de Catskills bij zijn huis.

Waarom ben je bezorgd? Ze is op de heuvel waar ze voor het eerst in slaap viel, het is ochtend, ze denkt dat ze flauwviel na de gebeurtenissen van gisteravond, en ze denkt: "Welk excuus moet ik mevrouw Van Winkle geven? Wat is er veranderd in zijn uiterlijk als Rip terugkeert naar zijn dorp? De man die Rip hier heeft gebracht heeft een vat met drankjes die hij deze karakters geeft. Rip probeert het drankje en vindt het zo lekker dat hij uiteindelijk te veel drinkt en in een diepe slaap valt.

Als hij wakker wordt, zijn alle vreemde figuren verdwenen, inclusief de man met het vat drank.