What satire can be found in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

In
","satirizes or makes fun of the effete, European-style intellectualism of
schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Crane lives in the folktales and legends of the past. He is not a
"manly" man and does not get along well with other men, surrounding himself with a
cadre of women who are impressed with his knowledge. The key point about Crane's book learning
is that it has not given him common sense or made him a good person. He wants to marry Katrina
for the wrong reason, which is to get his hands on her wealth. Also, for all his erudition, he
is outwitted and scared off by the uneducated ox of a young man, Brom.

In
satirizing Crane, Irving contributes to creating the mythos of the superiority of the practical,
down-to-earth American way in contrast to the over-educated, backward looking European
mindset.