Would you say that Ichabod Crane is socially awkward??
Slightly, but he's a quirky character. As described in the story, Ichabod Crane is a school teacher who travels to Sleepy Hollow to teach the children of the area. This, in company with his ability to ingratiate himself, persuades many of the townspeople to successively lodge him at their homes for a week at a time, which serves as his sole means of lodging. He follows strict morals in the schoolroom, including the proverbial Spare the rod and spoil the child; outside the schoolroom, he is shown to have few morals and no motive but his own gratification. Despite being thin, he is capable of eating astonishingly large amounts of food and is constantly seeking to do so. In addition to this, he is excessively superstitious, often to the extent of believing every myth, legend, tall tale, etc. to be literally true. As a result, he is perpetually frightened by anything that reminds him of ghosts or demons. If you're talking about the movie Sleepy Hollow, then, Constable Ichabod Crane is a fictional character, played by Johnny Depp. He is a New York policeman with an interest in science, sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a string of grisly murders. As in the original story, his horse is named Gunpowder. Ichabod's most notable traits in the movie include an ahead-of-his-time liking for post-mortem examinations and scientific methods, as well as his being very quirky.
