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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Washington Irving
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Ichabod Crane
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Characters
Meet the Cast
Ichabod Crane
A Yellow-Bellied, Lily-Livered, Scaredy CatIchabod is a namby-pamby. He's a chicken, a crybaby, a wimp, a wuss. Got it?You'd think that a guy who loves scary stories wouldn't be afraid of the darkâ...
Brom Van Brunt (Abraham, Brom Bones)
Foiled!We get it, we get it. Brom is strong and rough. He's a guy's guy. If he had been born later, and in the Midwest, he probably would have been a cowboy. He knows everything there is to know ab...
Baltus Van Tassel (Heer, Mynheer, or Old Van Tassel)
Is that You, Santa?Think of every fat, old, happy grandpa you have ever seen. Got it? Okay, combine all those images. There! Now you have a perfect idea of what Baltus Van Tassel is like. He's "rou...
Hans Van Ripper
"Choleric Old Dutchman" (1.34)Hans Van Ripper is an ornery old fellow, that's for sure. We get the feeling that he's a lot to handle. And if he's anything like his horse Gunpowder (which we're led...
Katrina Van Tassel
Even though she's the object of affection (slash conflict) for both the protagonist and antagonist, Katrina is barely a character in "Sleepy Hollow." Irving only gives us one paragraph of descripti...