"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

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    The story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" captures the imagination of readers today by discussing briefly the topics of  wizardry, haunted spots, ghosts and headless objects. "The dominate spirit that haunts this enchanted region is the apparition of  figure on horseback without a head." This is giving a reader, most likely a child the free range to believe that there can be things in this world such as a headless cat, a mythical creature, or even a ghost. It helps develop this by restating these thoughts throughout the story such as when it says "...and listen to their marvelous tales of ghost and goblins, haunted bridges and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman." It opens the readers minds up to the willingness of creating new creatures such as Ichabod "Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed."
     Irving's story helps one to create thing that without this story one may not be able to imagine. He even goes as far a there being a very detailed setting. This setting comes about when he is describing his passing of the farmers place. "Around him nature wore the rich and golden livery which we always associated with the idea of abundance." Of the course of the story as a reader someone might just develop a major idea of a new world with an entirely unique setting. Then again, maybe they already had an imagination and it just got evolved.