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About Ichabod Crane, the school master, Washington Irving writes in A Legend of Sleepy Hollow: He was, in fact an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credultiy. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. Ichabod Crane digests Cotton Mather's (a Puritan preacher) History of New England Witchcraft, a book in which he firmly and most potently believes. He spends many hours reading Mather's work, and fluttered by his excited imagination he believes that he is struck with a witch's token at times. To drive away the evil spirits, he sings psalm tunes. Nevertheless, Crane still delights in the supernatural, so he spends winter evening with the old Dutch wives who exchange tales of ghosts and goblins around the fire. In turn, Ichabod entertains them with Mathers's reports on witchcraft, as well as predicting what the sounds in the winter air portend.
