Talk:Hessian Lobo/@comment-4802891-20170223155635/@comment-91.44.80.200-20170223173025

Okay, I have now read a summation of the Postmichel-Legend and it seems pretty neat to work with the Noble Phantasm. Here is how it goes:

The name of the headless rider is Michel Banhard. He got caught up in a murder investigation in Esslingen near Stuttgart after he picked up a ring belonging to the victim near the crime scene. Because he was an idiot who put it on his finger instead of giving it to the authorities right away he was falsely accused of the crime and beheaded after a confession enforced under torture. Before he was about to be beheaded he had the last wish to ride to the place of his execution atop his white horse and blow his horn. For some odd reason he was granted this wish and when he did, he stopped in front of the house of the victim's nephew, going on a tirade about how suspiciously this guy behaved during the trial and then proclaimed to both crowd and executioner that the real murderer is still out there, at least before he was dragged off and beheaded. The very same night the horseman then rose from his grave and was seen riding through the streets with his head under his arm, still blowing his horn and accusing executioner and the victim's nephew. This scene repeated year after year on the day of his execution until the nephew finally broke down and confessed of having actually comitted the crime.

This sounds pretty damn like an Avenger to me. If the garbled German in the NP is just an attempt to write 'Cold Blooded Executioner' we have one in the story. Only part that doesn't appear is the wolf, though I find it rather interesting that the summation emphasized that the Postmichel has a white horse, rather untypical for a headless horseman.