Ichabod Crane

Ichabod Crane is the main protagonist from Disney's 1949 short The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, segment of the 1949 film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Ichabod Crane is the schoolmaster who teaches kids in the school of Sleepy Hollow. He loves to eat and read alot. He also teaches women in the chorus where he gets tricked by his rival Brom Bones by making both a dog bark and Ichabod to believe that he swallowed a dog. Soon, Ichabod meets a beautiful girl named Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a rich farmer and falls in love with her. One day, Ichabod offers to carry Katrina's groceries home for her, but Brom Bones who also has fallen in love with her, sees this, and knocks Ichabod down into the mud and carries Katrina and her groceries home on his horse. However, Ichabod manages to catch up and takes Katrina and her groceries home. When they arrive at Katrina's house, Ichabod kisses Katrina's hand, but just as he's about to leave, Brom shows up. Ichabod runs into Katrina's house and gives her some flowers to which Katrina puts one in Ichabod's shirt pocket. Just as Ichabod is about to leave again, Brom grabs him and is about to hit him, but Katrina manages to distract Brom by waving at him, and Ichabod escapes happily dancing and playing around on his way home. Soon, Katrina's father is having a Halloween party to which Ichabod attends with a horse that he has borrowed to travel on. At the party, Ichabod dances with Katrina, and Brom tries to steal her away from him, but Ichabod manages to get Katrina back and steals the whole dance floor with her causing everyone to clap for them at the end, except for Brom Bones who's very angry. Later on at the party, Brom tells a scary story about a Headless Horseman he met a year ago who rides every Halloween night in the Sleepy Hollow forest looking for a new head.

The story frightens Ichabod so much that he manages to put red hot pepper on his egg without realizing it, causing his eyes begin to water really badly and smoke to come out of his eyes. That night, as Ichabod rides home through Sleepy Hollow, he is haunted by Brom's story and hears animals such as frogs, crows, and owls screaming, "Headless Horseman! Headless Horseman! Headless Horseman! Beware! Beware! Beware!" Soon, Ichabod hears hooves approaching and realizes that it's not his horse, who has stopped dead in his tracks. Ichabod wonders if someone is following them and tries to get his horse to move, but he soon learns that the sound wasn't hooves, but branches beating on a log. He and his horse start to laugh until they hear someone else laugh. Then, they turn to see that it's none other than the Headless Horseman himself with a sword in one hand and a burning pumpkin in the other! Ichabod gets on his horse, and they ride away with the Headless Horseman chasing them.

Soon, Ichabod sees the bridge that Brom said, "Once you cross it, the Headless Horseman's power ends." Ichabod urges his horse to run towards the bridge, but the horse accidently gets turned around and runs back into the direction of the Headless Horseman where Ichabod sees that the evil Horseman really doesn't have a head. Ichabod and his horse run once again with the Headless Horseman chasing them, but they finally make it across the bridge where Ichabod looks back and screams as the Headless Horseman throws his pumpkin at him. The next day, Ichabod's hat is found next to a shattered pumpkin, but there is no trace of Ichabod's body who has vanished. Shortly afterwards, Brom Bones marries Katrina Van Tassel. Rumors begin to spread that Ichabod is still alive and married to a wealthy widow in a deasent county, but the people of Sleepy Hollow don't believe the rumors and say that Ichabod had been spirited away by the Headless Horseman.

House of Mouse
Ichabod Crane appears as one of the guests in the Mickey Mouse show House of Mouse.

Trivia
Ichabod may had inspired Belle as both main characters are considered by the towns people "strange".