“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Cultural  

1. (1819) A story by Washington Irving. Its central character, Ichabod Crane, is a vain and cowardly teacher and the rival in love of Brom Bones. Bones terrorizes Crane by disguising himself as a legendary headless horseman.

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Example Sentences

If the CW network wanted to turn Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” into a teenage-friendly show, it would look something like this graphic novel, “Hollow,” which is more gently spooky than intensely macabre.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Among them: A collection of vintage science-fiction comics, a coming-of-age take on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and a series about the survivors of a cataclysm.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

At the Washington Ballet, outgoing Artistic Director Septime Webre has turned to American literature for inspiration, adapting “The Great Gatsby,” “The Sun Also Rises” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” for the stage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Like most young people of their time, the sisters also grew up with popular ghost stories like author Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Methodist founder John Wesley’s family haunt, “Old Jeffrey.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

So Irving begins “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” with the place and time, then follow the characters.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)