The next day, Ichabod’s horse returns to its owner’s farm, but there is no sign of Ichabod. Ichabod crosses the bridge and looks back, but he sees the Horseman, instead of disappearing, hurl his detached head at him. They end up by the church, the scene of most of the stories of the Headless Horseman, and Ichabod races to the bridge where the ghost is said to disappear and not follow. Ichabod tries to get his decrepit horse to run home as fast as it can, but he is not a skilled rider and the horse resists.
Finally, he notices that the rider has no head on his shoulders the head seems to be sitting on the saddle in front of the man.
Ichabod is greatly disturbed and tries to shake off his pursuer, but he fails. It does not respond to his call, but as he passes by, it starts to move and joins him on the path riding a large, dark horse. He tries to keep himself from getting too scared, but soon after he has passed the possibly haunted Major Andre’s tree, he sees a large, dark figure looming nearby. He finds the path home dark and eerily quiet. For some reason, however, Katrina disappoints him. At this party, he apparently finds himself the best man in the house, and when the party is over he stays behind. One day, a messenger comes to the schoolhouse to invite Ichabod to a party at the Van Tassels’. He fills the school house with smoke, trains a dog to follow Ichabod around howling, and sets many other pranks to frustrate and humiliate Ichabod. Without that option, Brom turns to his next best skill-pranks. Brom is notorious for his boisterous personality, love of pranks, and great skill at horseback riding-all of which make him something of a village hero.īrom has already scared off many of Katrina’s other suitors, but Ichabod is harder to shake, avoiding physical confrontation with Brom, which is Brom’s main method of intimidation. Her beauty, charm, and wealth have entranced many other men in the village, especially the formidable Brom Van Brunt, also known as Brom Bones. Ichabod is not alone in his attentions to Katrina, however. He quickly sets out to win her hand in marriage, coming by the Van Tassel farm frequently to woo her. Ichabod is quickly taken in by her flirtatious charms, but it is when he first visits her father’s abundant farm that he considers himself truly in love with her, or at least her likely inheritance. She is also the only child of Baltus Van Tassel, one of the more successful farmers in the area. Katrina Van Tassel, a beautiful young woman of eighteen, is one of Ichabod’s students. He also has an insatiable hunger and a taste for the finer things. This arrangement keeps him employed and gives him many opportunities to hear ghost stories from the farmers’ wives and eat meals with the farmers’ daughters. Along with this, Ichabod makes some extra money teaching singing lessons-he prides himself greatly on his magnificent voice. Ichabod makes almost no money, and it is customary in the village for the farmers whose sons he teaches to feed and board him in rotation. Ichabod is a strict teacher but not a cruel one, doling out his punishment of the rod only to those who can handle it. Ichabod is fascinated by this story, being especially interested (and prone to believe) in tales of the supernatural. He is believed to be always in search of his head. The Horseman is seen most often riding by the church, where local historians say he was buried. Sleepy Hollow’s most famous supernatural phenomenon is the ghost of the Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannon ball during the Revolutionary War. Sleepy Hollow, maybe for that reason or maybe because its residents are almost all descended from its original Dutch settlers, has more than its fair share of supernatural occurrences, or at least stories of them.
Its residents all seem to move a little slower, daydream a little more, and be more prone to believe in the supernatural. Sleepy Hollow is a small, very quiet town said to be under some kind of enchantment. Ichabod comes to Sleepy Hollow, New York, from his home state of Connecticut, to be the schoolmaster of the village. “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” tells the story of Ichabod Crane and his hapless attempt to win the heart and hand of Katrina Van Tassel in the context of a comical ghost story.
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