Disney made it famous.

True 1958 Bing Crosby reading it I believe, mostly Just watched it after determining I had to within Halloween time in a country that doesn't celebrate Halloween. Connection to childhood

I was one of those teachers in the school system in Florida, telling this story in the elementary school I worked at when I was young. I loved how the kids were obsessed with it.

@@beverlypena4803 Thank you for being one of those teachers! I can only imagine how many students lives you have touched, and they will carry those things with them their whole life.

Would love the idea of actually being immortalized in a book like this, fictional or not

Charles dickens did this too

Yes me too👍🏽

My sun love it

same!!

Yes that’s very true my friend

Always remember it from the Disney cartoon. Was born in Yonkers & my Pop pop loved to tell us all those Dutch tales of the Hudson Valley

Cool

The problem here is, the finicky schoolmaster who posed himself as an enlightened man of letters & an esteemed scholar was, at the same time, a gold-digging moocher only in love with Katrina Van Tassel more for her wealthy inheritance than her physical beauty, which Ichabod knew would likely fade with time, because it was made abundantly clear that all he really cared about was acquiring Katrina's hand in marriage purely so he could eventually acquire old Baltus Van Tassel's fortune for himself. To be fair, none of the characters in THE LEGEND are really 100% likeable. Ichabod's strongest rival for Katrina's affections was the town's braggadocios blacksmith Abraham Van Brunt, rather appropriately nicknamed Brom Bones (this was due to his prodigious strength & seemingly unmatched skill on horseback [sans a certain galloping ghoul, of course]). Brom was described as a burly & boisterous fellow who loved embellishing frightful stories (recall his supposed encounter challenging the prevailing specter to a race & Brom making the outlandish claim that he could've beaten the resident ghost had the cranium-challenged Hessian astride his demonic steed not suddenly disappeared in a flash of fire just as they neared the famous bridge that the Headless Horseman cannot cross), pulling pranks (such as rearranging everything in the schoolhouse, which caused Ichabod to think that some malevolent otherworldly force was at work) & administering practical jokes (such as having a scruffy dog howl during one of Ichabod's singing lessons, causing the ladyfolk of the town to faint due to mistaking the howling dog for Ichabod, who prided himself on a lot of his abilities, including his singing & dancing), but Brom's also got an intense jealous streak about him when he feels himself outmatched by the posturing pedagogue. Just as Ichabod & Brom are two polarizing figures each vying for her hand, the lady fair of the story, Katrina Van Tassel -- the rich heiress of/only child to old Baltus Van Tassel, the wealthiest farmer in the region -- is no less troublesome than they are, because she intentionally stirred the embers of the smoldering rivalry between her two remaining suitors (Ichabod & Brom had each driven the rest of the men who otherwise pined for Katrina away, either by eloquence [from Ichabod] or by sheer intimidation [from Brom]), since she loved Ichabod's way with words & dancing, yet she may have become aware of the schoolmaster's more selfish motivations for wanting to marry her, which is why she ultimately rejected him & wound up marrying Brom at the end of the story following Ichabod's mysterious disappearance, since it was heavily implied that Katrina was only leading a smitten Ichabod on strictly to make Brom jealous.

Yes and my fav is the 1999 version

lmao what was the assignment called

Who is he😄