Contained in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, for 10 points, name this short story by Washington Irving about a superstitious schoolteacher's encounter with a headless horseman.
The main character comes from a place "which supplies the Union with pioneers of the mind as well as the forest" and his place of employment, while easily broken into, is not so easily broken out of, due to an idea borrowed from the architect Yost Van Houton. Its epigraph begins "A pleasing land of drowsy it was," from James Thomson's "The Castle of Indolence," and it is set in a small town near the Tappan Zee. Its central character is contested for the daughter of Baltus by a double-jointed man known for being as dexterous as a Tartar on horseback, Abraham Von Brunt, and leaves the title location partly out of fear of Hans Van Ripper and partly out of the embarrassment of being rejected by Van Tassel. Contained in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, for 10 points, name this short story by Washington Irving about a superstitious schoolteacher's encounter with a headless horseman.
The main character comes from a place "which supplies the Union with pioneers of the mind as well as the forest" and his place of employment, while easily broken into, is not so easily broken out of, due to an idea borrowed from the architect Yost Van Houton.
“The Legend of {Sleepy Hollow}”