Macabre Mansion Presents... The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Dramatized) characters

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A lanky Connecticut schoolmaster teaching in the secluded Hudson Valley settlement of Sleepy Hollow. Learned by local standards, hungry for advancement, and intensely superstitious, he supplements his income by assisting farm families and enjoys stories of ghosts even though they terrify him.

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The only daughter of prosperous farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Young, flirtatious, and expected to inherit a thriving farm, she attracts Ichabod as much through the comfortable future surrounding her as through her personal charms.

Also known as Brom Bones

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A powerful, confident local horseman and practical joker who is Ichabod's chief rival for Katrina. Popular among the young men of the neighborhood, he first tries ridicule and mischief when the schoolmaster proves difficult to drive away openly.

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Katrina's wealthy and hospitable father, a contented farmer whose land, animals, and abundant table represent the settled prosperity Ichabod longs to obtain through marriage.

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The farmer with whom Ichabod is lodging at the time of the Van Tassels' party. His old, ill-tempered horse Gunpowder carries the schoolmaster on the decisive night ride.

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The legendary apparition most feared around Sleepy Hollow, said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier killed by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War. Local tales claim that he rides at night in search of his missing head.