Sleepy Hollow

Introduction
Main Titles
The story
Evil Eye
The Church Battle
Love Lost
The Chase
The Final Confrontation
A New Day
End Credits

Glorymar Reynoso
Introduction
it's a short story, relating the tale of Ichabod Crane,
The great American short story ‘‘The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow’’ was written while Washington Irving
was living in England, and it was published in
England in a volume called The Sketch Book of
Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Sketch Book was
published in installments in the United States
beginning in 1819, but the section that included this
story was not issued until 1820. Readers on both
sides of the Atlantic Ocean thus encountered the
story at approximately the same time.
''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' takes place in Sleepy
Hollow, New York, a snug rural valley near Tarry
town in the Catskill Mountains. Constructed from
German tales but set in America, it is a classic tale of
the conflict between city and country, and between
brains and brawn. Ichabod Crane courts Katrina Van
Tassel, but is frightened away by his rival, Brom
Bones, masquerading as the headless horseman.
The story demonstrates the two qualities for which
Irving is best known: (1) his humor, and (2) his ability
to create vivid descriptive imagery.
Readers immediately took to “The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow’’ and another tale from the Sketch Book, ‘‘Rip
Van Winkle.’’ Although little formal criticism greeted
the arrival of the story specifically, the Sketch Book
became wildly popular and widely reviewed both in
the United States and in England. It was the first
book by an American writer to become popular
outside the United States, and helped establish
American writing as a serious and respectable
literature. In 1864, ‘‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
was published as a separate illustrated volume for
the first time, and there have been dozens of editions
since. Today, most of Irving's work has been largely
forgotten, but the characters of Ichabod Crane and
the Headless Horseman have lived on as part of
American folklore.
 Main Titles
Films:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (film), a 1980 film
directed by Henning Schellerup, ase don
Washington Irving’s story
Sleepy Hollow (film), a 1999 film directed by Tim
Burton, ase don Washington Irving’s story
Literature:
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", an 1820 short story
by Washington Irving, which inspired numerous
adaptations
Music:
Sleepy Hollow (album), by the Siegel–Schwall Band
(1972)
Sleepy Hollow (soundtrack) of the Tim Burton movie
(1999)
Television:
Sleepy Hollow (TV series), a 2013 American
television drama series, loosely based on the
Washington Irving story.
 The story
Set in the remote village called Sleepy Hollow in the
Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (New York) in the 1790s,
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of a
schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane. The schoolmaster
competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt for the
hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, only daughter of
a wealthy farmer. One autumn night, as Crane leaves a
party at the Van Tassel home, he is pursued by the
Headless Horseman , supposedly the ghost of a Hessian
trooper who lost his head to a cannonballThe Headless
Horseman is a fictional character first depicted in
Washington Irving's short story The Legend of the Sleepy
Hollow. The man who became the Headless Horseman
was a Hessian hired by the British Army in 1776 in order
to assist British soldiers in the Revolutionary War (1775–
1783).
Among the 548 Hessian mercenaries who lost their lives
in that war, he was killed in battle near Sleepy Hollow,
New York when his head was "carried away" by a
cannonball. According to later local legend, the Horseman
returned in spirit form to take the heads of the living.
Ichabod Crane ignores the warnings of danger from the
legendary Horseman and later meets an unknown fate at
the hands of the horseman. Although Crane's rival Brom
Bones may have been masquerading as the Horseman, it
is not explicitly determined whether Crane encounters the
actual Horseman or Brom Bones.
 Evil Eye

Tim Burton is to be commended for properly presenting

the pentagram as a warding sign rather than an emblem
of evil, but his inclusion of an eye is perhaps unique.
The symbol is first presented as representing evil:
The Church Battle

Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster of the small

village of Sleepy Hollow woos the hand of the fair
maiden Katrina Van Tassel, only to be spurned in
favour of the roguish local lad Brom Van Brunt (more
commonly known as Brom Bones). On the night of
his rejected advances Crane retired from the Van
Tassel farm back to his abode at Hans Van Ripper's
farm, only to encounter the infamous Headless
Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
This foul denizen of the night was rumoured to be the
ghost of a Hessian cavalryman killed in the
Revolutionary War when a cannonball shot his head
from his shoulders. Since then he has ridden the
region looking for a fresh head to replace the one he
carries on the pommel of his saddle.
Irving recounts how Ichabod Crane falls afoul of the
Horseman, attempting to reach the safety of the
church bridge, which if crossed, stories tell, means
safety. By the skin of his teeth, Ichabod reaches the
bridge and thinking himself safe turns to check on his
foe. Whilst the Horseman does not cross the bridge,
he hurls his decapitated head at Crane, striking him
on the cranium and from his mount. All that is found
the next day is Ichabod Crane's hat and a smashed
pumpkin...
 Love Lost
Ichabod kisses Katrina’s hand and takes off in the
dead of night past Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, regretful
of listening to those scary tales by the fire. Gulp. Now
he’s on edge, fearful of every shadow and sound.
Just as he’s almost out of the forest, his worst fears
materialize. The Headless Horseman appears on his
mighty steed, cackling and whirring his sword near
Ichabod’s head. A chase ensues, and just as
Ichabod crosses the bridge toward safety, the
horseman throws his head—a flaming pumpkin—
toward Ichabod, knocking him off his horse. We
never actually find out what happened to Ichabod,
but the flaming pumpkin is a clue. A real ghost
would’ve thrown his head, the legend says. But some
say he was spooked out of town by Brom Bones
pretending to be the horseman, a prank enabling him
to lead the fair Katrina to the altar. Oh, Ichabod, such
a sucker! Rumors say that Ichabod was alive in
another county married to a wealthy widow. But the
old wives of Sleepy Hollow know he was spirited
away by the Headless Horseman.
 The Chase

The day after Baltus Van Tassel's party, Ichabod

doesn't appear at breakfast at the home of Hans Van
Ripper where he is staying. Nearly, or perhaps more,
bothersome to Van Ripper is that Gunpowder, the
horse Ichabod borrowed the previous night, has
returned--but without his saddle. Van Ripper and
some others go in search of the saddle and the
schoolmaster. On the road leading to the church they
find the "traces" of Ichabod's last night.
 The Final Confrontation

They end up by the church, the scene of most of the

stories of the Headless Horseman, and Ichabod races to
the bridge where the ghost is said to disappear and not
follow. Ichabod crosses the bridge and looks back, but he
sees the Horseman, instead of disappearing, hurl his
detached head at him. It knocks Ichabod off of his horse.
The next morning the old horse was found without his
saddle, and with the bridle under his feet, soberly
cropping the grass at his master’s gate. Ichabod did not
make his appearance at breakfast; dinner-hour came, but
no Ichabod. The boys assembled at the schoolhouse, and
strolled idly about the banks of the brook; but no
schoolmaster. Hans Van Ripper now began to feel some
uneasiness about the fate of poor Ichabod, and his
saddle. An inquiry was set on foot, and after diligent
investigation they came upon his traces. In one part of the
road leading to the church was found the saddle trampled
in the dirt; the tracks of horses’ hoofs deeply dented in the
road, and evidently at furious speed, were traced to the
bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part of the
brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the
hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a
shattered pumpkin.
The brook was searched, but the body of the
schoolmaster was not to be discovered. Hans Van Ripper
as executor of his estate, examined the bundle which
contained all his worldly effects. They consisted of two
shirts and a half; two stocks for the neck; a pair or two of
worsted stockings; an old pair of corduroy small-clothes; a
rusty razor; a book of psalm tunes full of dog’s-ears; and a
broken pitch-pipe. As to the books and furniture of the
schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting
Cotton Mather’s “History of Witchcraft,” a “New England
Almanac,” and a book of dreams and fortune-telling; in
which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and
blotted in several fruitless attempts to make a copy of
verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel. These
magic books and the poetic scrawl were forthwith
consigned to the flames by Hans Van Ripper; who, from
that time forward, determined to send his children no
more to school, observing that he never knew any good
come of this same reading and writing. Whatever money
the schoolmaster possessed, and he had received his
quarter’s pay but a day or two before, he must have had
about his person at the time of his disappearance.
The mysterious event caused much speculation at
the church on the following Sunday. Knots of gazers and
gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge,
and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been
found. The stories of Brouwer, of Bones, and a whole
budget of others were called to mind; and when they had
diligently considered them all, and compared them with
the symptoms of the present case, they shook their
heads, and came to the conclusion that Ichabod had been
carried off by the Galloping Hessian. As he was a
bachelor, and in nobody’s debt, nobody troubled his head
any more about him; the school was removed to a
different quarter of the hollow, and another pedagogue
reigned in his stead.
It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New
York on a visit several years after, and from whom this
account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought
home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive;
that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of
the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in
mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the
heiress.
 A New Day
The next day, Ichabod’s horse returns to its owner’s
farm, but there is no sign of Ichabod. A search party
finds hoof prints and Ichabod’s hat, with a smashed
pumpkin left next to it. Ichabod is never heard from
again in Sleepy Hollow, although later on it seems
that he is alive elsewhere and has told his story.
Some of the townspeople believe that Brom Bones
pulled off a great prank—which put Brom in the final
position to marry Katrina—but the old women and
local folklore maintain that he was taken by the
Headless Horseman.
 End Credits
Director Credit
Tim Burton Director
Writer Credit
Andrew Kevin Walker Screenplay
Kevin Yagher Screen Story
Washington Irving Story "The Legend Of Sleepy
Hollow"
Principal Cast Credit
Christina Ricci Katrina Van Tassel
Johnny Depp Ichabod Crane
Cast Credit
Casper Van Dien Brom Van Brunt
Christopher Lee Burgomaster
Christopher Walken Hessian Horseman
Claire Skinner Beth Killian
Ian McDiarmid Doctor Lancaster
Jeffrey Jones Reverend Steenwyck
Lisa Marie Lady Crane
Marc Pickering Young Masbath
Michael Gambon Baltus Van Tassel
 Michael Gough Notary Hardenbrook
Miranda Richardson Lady Van Tassel/Crone
Richard Griffiths Magistrate Philipse
Steven Waddington Killian
Producer Credit
Adam Schroeder Producer
Andrew Kevin Walker Co-Producer
Celia D. Costas Line Producer: New York
Dieter Geissler Associate Producer
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Kevin Yagher Co-Producer
Larry J. Franco Executive Producer
Mark Roybal Associate Producer
Scott Rudin Producer