The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night he is pursued by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball and rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head.