THE POLISH RIP VAN WINKLE
Rip Van Winkle was a character in a short by the American writer Washington Irving.
In the story, Rip lived in a little town in the Hudson Valley, in NewYork, in the 1770s, around the time of American Revolution.
Rip went out hunting one day, took a nap under a tree, and fell asleep.
He woke up 20 years later to find himself a citizen of a brand-new country the United States of America.