... to overrun local custom and history-is essential in activating the ghost story. In part this is because Ichabod is not really all that hard-headed. He "potently believe[s]" in Cotton Mather's witchlore, and his "appetite for the marvellous" is only matched by his extraordinary "powers of digesting it" (pp. 276–277). Also, his susceptibility to perceiving the uncanny in his ... ...

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