Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town New York in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story 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. As Crane leaves a party he is pursued by the Headless Horseman who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who 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.Also includes Rip Van Winkle.