He is well respected and liked throughout the town. Brom is a troublemaker, a loud and rowdy man known in the town for his feats of strength and heroic actions. Among them, a man named Brom Van Brunt is the largest threat to Ichabod. However, Katrina has other suitors who are rivals for her affection. Ichabod finds himself falling completely in love with Katrina as he is taken in by her charms and impressed by her father's wealth. Katrina is the daughter of a very wealthy farmer and entertains many suitors looking to make her their wife. Katrina Van Tassel is one of Ichabod's singing pupils and eighteen-year-old known throughout the area for her families wealth and her incredible beauty. He also greatly enjoys the story of the Headless Horseman and listening to the local housewives tell the story. He often spends so long reading frightening stories at the school that he must sing psalms to himself on his walk home so that he is not afraid of the dark. Because of his interest in this book Ichabod considers himself a firm believer in the supernatural. He is most interested in the book "History of New England Witchcraft" by Cotton Mather, the parson from the town of Salem, Massachusetts who presided over the famous Salem witch trials. Because of this, many of the town's women find themselves lusting after Ichabod and wanting him for a husband. He is considered one of the most intelligent men in Sleepy Hollow, second only to the town's parson. Ichabod is also the singing master of the town and makes some extra money doing this. Ichabod keeps very few possessions and does his best to be useful in the homes that he stays in, often helping on farms and always being agreeable. Ichabod's students admire him greatly and, due to the custom of the time he prevails upon one student's family per week for room and board as his pay is too little to keep a house of his own. The weaker students are treated with much more patience. However, he's not without mercy and he only uses the rod on children that he feels can bear it. He is a tough schoolmaster, believing in punishing children who act up by beating them with a rod. The schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane is a man newly arrived from Connecticut. The horseman is referred to by the people as The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.īy day, the town has its small pieces of normalcy. The townspeople believe that he may be searching for his head as he is often seen rushing throughout the town. The horseman is believed to be a Hessian soldier left over from the Revolutionary War. The town's most prominent legend is that of a horseman who rides around the town by night with no head on his shoulders. Sleepy Hollow, we're told, has it's fair share of curses, superstitions, legends and odd happenings. The narrator tells us that this may be because of a curse or a spell. The narrator of the story tells us that everyone in Sleepy Hollow is, as the name would suggest, dreamy and sleepy at all times. It is a quiet town, between the Tappan Zee and Hudson rivers and a very small market town named Tarry Town. The story begins in the small town of Sleepy Hollow. It works, and Ichabod has never seen in the town again. However, Brom finds this tale a little too amusing and it is implied that he dressed up as the Horseman to frighten Ichabod into leaving. When he is not found, the superstitious townspeople assume that he has been taken by the Horseman. The next morning, Ichabod's horse is found and the town searches for him. Eventually, the horseman vanishes but not before throwing his decapitated head at Ichabod, knocking the man off his horse. The Headless Horseman leaps out of the town's legends and chases Ichabod down. Disappointed, he leaves to head back home and stumbles across a nightmare on the way. While there he confesses his feelings to Katrina and she rejects him. One night, Ichabod is invited to the Van Tassel's farm for a party. Ichabod loves to hear ghost stories and learns of a local legend, a headless horseman who is supposed to ride through the town at night looking for his disembodied head. Ichabod is opposed in this by a rival for the ladies affection, a man named Brom Van Brunt. The short story tells the tale of a small town schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane who attempts to woo a beautiful young heiress named Katrina Van Tassel.
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