![]() Read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (downloadable PDF: legend-of-sleepy-hollow). Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.” “Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Irving’s vivid character descriptions convey a distinct impression of each, and his description of Ichabod Crane’s dancing is especially evocative: ![]() Ichabod Crane disappears, and the “schoolhouse, being deserted, soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.” The tale climaxes with a dramatic ride through a dark swamp and an encounter with a headless horseman near a reportedly haunted tree. Hometown rival Brom Bones makes life difficult for Crane, playing practical jokes and telling ghost stories that alarmed the nervous outsider. Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the story of the ill-fated 1790 courtship of Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of a wealthy farmer, by superstitious Yankee schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian Context. ![]()
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