... crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin - and "The old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means."" The story takes place in a small market town on the shore of the Hudson River in New York known as Sleepy Hollow. The town is known as a very calming place ... he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin - and "The old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was sp...

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