The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is filled with fanciful and magical tales. Nearly all of the characters in the story seem to believe in the supernatural, particularly Ichabod Crane. Throughout the tale, the reader is shown how vast of an imagination Ichabod has. He loved to read books with marvelous tales of witchcraft and magic and hear stories of ghosts, goblins, and the like. The reader is even told “his appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary…”(page 12). His imagination was so vivid that it would even cause him fright while traveling home during the evenings. He would be scared of “every sound of nature”(page 12). Whether it was the hoot of an owl, the cry of a tree-toad,
