But the competition for Katrina’s hand leads to Brom Bones aggressively pranking Ichabod Crane, and Ichabod regularly looking like a fool in front of his lady love. Just in case you don’t know the tale, I won’t spoil it. Ichabod Crane, on the other hand, is superstitious and scared when he’s out alone after dark. The Hessian rides through the town at night in search of his lost head.īrom Bones says he encountered the Headless Horseman and basically bested him. The Horseman is said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in the Revolutionary War. Tarry Town has more than its fair share of ghosts, goblins and haunted trees, but everyone is most frightened of the Headless Horseman. The second is a lot of supernatural activity. Both men are vying for the hand of beautiful, 18-year-old Dutch heiress Katrina Van Tassel. The first is a love triangle between the outsider school teacher, Ichabod Crane, and the town’s big man on campus, Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt. Tarry Town seems to have two things going on. Irving sets the scene in 1790 in a small glen ( Sleepy Hollow) in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (now Tarrytown in Westchester County, NY). Romantic comedy or the great American horror story?įirst, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is just as much a romantic comedy as a horror story.
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