In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving tells of Ichabod Crane a schoolteacher who seeks to marry a beautiful young woman named Katrina Key to the story is a headless horseman who haunts the colonial countryside One night Ichabod encounters a ghostly apparition on horseback and flees the region in terror It rsquo s clear to the reader that this ldquo horseman rdquo is actually a rival suitor for Katrina who then marries her Ichabod is a name first seen in the Bible and it too has a gloomy backstory While at war with the Philistines Israel carried the [... more]