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Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Crane is portrayed in the original work, and in most adaptations, as a tall, lanky individual.
Jesse Merwin (April 3, 1783 – November 8, 1852), called the "pattern" or "original" of Ichabod Crane, was a rural schoolmaster in Upstate New York, and a friend of Martin Van Buren and Washington Irving. He taught school at a single-room schoolhouse in Columbia County, New York.
The Kinderhook school district is named "Ichabod Crane". [3] for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years.
Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane's horse from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; Hatatitla, Old Shatterhand's horse in Karl May's Winnetou; Hell Bitch, from Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry; The Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Hwin, from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
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[117] [118] American painter John Quidor based many of his paintings on scenes from the works of Irving about Dutch New York, including such paintings as Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman (1828), The Return of Rip Van Winkle (1849), and The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858). [119] [120]
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Cinderella was recruited as his off-the-books agent shortly after her arrival in the mundane world, approximately two centuries prior to the present-day setting of the comics. Missions shown have included seducing Ichabod Crane in