Aside
from the obvious conflict between Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones, there are a number of other
conflicts at work in 's . First, the beliefs of the very town are in
conflict with the larger region, as those in the town subscribe to various superstitions,
including that of the Headless Horseman. Irving comments on the discrepancy, going so far as to
say that when outsiders come to Tarrytown
they are sure,
in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to
dream dreams, and see apparitions.
Within Ichabod himself
is also the conflict between his fondness for supernatural tales and their effects on his
imagination. Washington writes of Ichabod's enjoyment of ghost stories:
But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in
the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and
where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly...
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