![]() He’s mean to his students, unless he sees an opportunity of mooching free meals off their mothers or flirting with their older sisters.Įventually, Ichabod’s fancy is caught by Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of the wealthy Baltus Van Tassel. He is-if I may cut through the florid 19 th-century lingo-kind of a jerk. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher in a region of New York known as Tarrytown in the early 19th-century. “Geoffrey Crayon” being a pseudonym of Washington Iriving. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story, originally published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ![]() ![]() The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, by John Quidor (1858) ![]()
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