Sleepy Hollow

Burgomaster: There is a town upstate, two days' journey to the north, in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it? Crane: I have not. Burgomaster: An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight, each one found with the head lopped off. Crane: Lopped off? Burgomaster: "Clean as dandelion heads," apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this? Crane: I shall. Burgomaster: Remember, it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.

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Katrina: I have shed my tears for Brom, and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked? Crane: No... but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina. Katrina: Why do you say that? Crane: Because you have bewitched me.

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Crane: So... three persons murdered. First, Peter Van Garrett and his son, Dirk Van Garrett. Both of them strong, capable men, found together... decapitated. One week later, the widow Winship. Also decapitated. Now, I will need to ask you many questions. But first, let me ask: Is anyone suspected? Van Tassell: How much have your superiors explained to you, constable? Crane: Only that the three were slain in open ground. Their heads found severed from their bodies. Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads were not found severed. Their heads were not found at all. Crane: The heads are... Gone? Notary Hardenbrook: Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell. Crane: [confused] Pardon, I...I don't... Van Tassell: Perhaps you had best sit down? [Crane does so] The Horseman was a Hessian mercenary, sent to these shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the Horseman came for love of carnage. When battle was joine

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Crane: Gentlemen: murder needs no ghosts come from the grave. We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins. Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.

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Crane: We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead. Young Masbath: How will we recognize it? Crane: Without difficulty, I rather fear.

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Young Masbath: Is he... dead? Crane: That's the problem; he was dead to begin with.

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