The beginning of this story quotes James Thomson's poem "The Castle of Indolence."
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"