the legend of sleepy hollow
The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town
(historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow.
Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the
imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors.
Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement.
Other residents say an old Native American chief, the wizard of his tribe, held his powwows
here before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. The most infamous spectre
in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper that had
his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American
Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head".
The "Legend" relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious
schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town
rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a
wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina
as a means of procuring Van Tassel's extravagant wealth. Bones, the local hero, vies with
Ichabod for Katrina's hand, playing a series of pranks on the jittery schoolmaster, and the
fate of Sleepy Hollow's fortune weighs in the balance for some time. The tension between the
three is soon brought to a head. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest
party at the Van Tassels' homestead. He dances, partakes in the feast, and listens to ghostly
legends told by Brom and the locals, but his true aim is to propose to Katrina after the guests
leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated.
After having failed to secure Katrina's hand, Ichabod rides home "heavy-hearted and crestfallen"
through the woods between Van Tassel's farmstead and the Sleepy Hollow settlement. As he passes
several purportedly haunted spots, his active imagination is engorged by the ghost stories
told at Baltus' harvest party. After nervously passing under a lightning-stricken tulip tree
purportedly haunted by the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider
at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled by his fellow traveler's eerie size and
silence, the teacher is horrified to discover that his companion's head is not on his shoulders,
but on his saddle. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground,
where the Hessian is said to "vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone"
upon crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading his temperamental plow horse
down the Hollow.
However, to Crane's horror, the ghoul clambers over the bridge, rears his horse, and hurls his
severed head into Ichabod's terrified face.
The next morning, Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom
Bones, who was said "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related."
Indeed, the only relics of the schoolmaster's flight are his wandering horse, trampled saddle,
discarded hat, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Although the nature of the Headless Horseman
is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the ghost was really Brom (an agile
stunt rider) in disguise. Irving's narrator concludes, however, by stating that the old Dutch
wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was "spirited away by supernatural means,"
and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit.
(historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow.
Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the
imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors.
Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement.
Other residents say an old Native American chief, the wizard of his tribe, held his powwows
here before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. The most infamous spectre
in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper that had
his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American
Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head".
The "Legend" relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious
schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town
rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a
wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina
as a means of procuring Van Tassel's extravagant wealth. Bones, the local hero, vies with
Ichabod for Katrina's hand, playing a series of pranks on the jittery schoolmaster, and the
fate of Sleepy Hollow's fortune weighs in the balance for some time. The tension between the
three is soon brought to a head. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest
party at the Van Tassels' homestead. He dances, partakes in the feast, and listens to ghostly
legends told by Brom and the locals, but his true aim is to propose to Katrina after the guests
leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated.
After having failed to secure Katrina's hand, Ichabod rides home "heavy-hearted and crestfallen"
through the woods between Van Tassel's farmstead and the Sleepy Hollow settlement. As he passes
several purportedly haunted spots, his active imagination is engorged by the ghost stories
told at Baltus' harvest party. After nervously passing under a lightning-stricken tulip tree
purportedly haunted by the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider
at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled by his fellow traveler's eerie size and
silence, the teacher is horrified to discover that his companion's head is not on his shoulders,
but on his saddle. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground,
where the Hessian is said to "vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone"
upon crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading his temperamental plow horse
down the Hollow.
However, to Crane's horror, the ghoul clambers over the bridge, rears his horse, and hurls his
severed head into Ichabod's terrified face.
The next morning, Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom
Bones, who was said "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related."
Indeed, the only relics of the schoolmaster's flight are his wandering horse, trampled saddle,
discarded hat, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Although the nature of the Headless Horseman
is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the ghost was really Brom (an agile
stunt rider) in disguise. Irving's narrator concludes, however, by stating that the old Dutch
wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was "spirited away by supernatural means,"
and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit.
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