The beginning of this story quotes James Thomson's poem "The Castle of Indolence." Yost Van Houten c
The beginning of this story quotes James Thomson's poem "The Castle of Indolence." Yost Van Houten constructed the house of its protagonist, who "was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's History of New-England Witchcraft." The plot of this story is sent in motion when the protagonist borrows a horse from Hans Van Ripper to attend a quilting bee. After the protagonist succeeds in courting Katrina Van Tassel, a legend about a dead Hessian inspires Brom Bones to frighten him. Narrated by Diedrich Knickerbocker, FTP, identify this 1820 short story about a headless horseman that terrifies Ichabod Crane, a work by Washington Irving.
The beginning of this story quotes James Thomson's poem "The Castle of Indolence."
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"