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Age and build

Large and gigantic in stature

“He appeared to be a horseman of large dimensions and mounted on a black horse of powerful frame” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Gigantic in height

“On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height and muffled in a cloak” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Face and hair

Headless, carrying his head on the saddle pommel

“Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless! but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of the saddle” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Dress

Muffled in a cloak

“gigantic in height and muffled in a cloak” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Voice and speech

The book is silent here, so we keep this plain and neutral.

Signature words

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Gait and mannerisms

Rides with supernatural speed like the wind

“hurrying along in the gloom of night as if on the wings of the wind” (Sketch Book, part 38)

Keeps aloof and silent, offering no communication

“He made no offer of molestation or sociability, but kept aloof on one side of the road, jogging along on the blind side of old Gunpowder” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Pursues with relentless matching of pace

“The stranger, however, quickened his horse to an equal pace. Ichabod pulled up, and fell into a walk, thinking to lag behind; the other did the same” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Hurls his head as a weapon at his quarry

“Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups, and in the very act of hurling his head at him” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Strengths

Supernatural speed and agility on horseback

“Away, then, they dashed through thick and thin, stones flying and sparks flashing at every bound” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Ability to vanish in fire and brimstone at the church bridge

“the Hessian bolted and vanished in a flash of fire” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Flaws

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Traits

Mysterious and appalling in demeanor

“There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling” (Sketch Book, part 41)

Driven by nightly quest for his lost head

“the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak” (Sketch Book, part 38)

Lines in their own words

The book is silent here, so we keep this plain and neutral.