Icha-What?

In American Literature we recently read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and let me tell you, Irving had quite the imagination; in this legend, there was this dude who rode a horse with his head on his hand chucking it at this other dude, there was some dude name Brom Bones, another dude named Ichabod, and a lady named.. Katrina. Don't get me wrong, I love names that are pretty unfamiliar (unique) but two "odd" names and one Katrina it's.... it's something. Hey, what do I know? Maybe Katrina was a pretty hip name back in Irving's day, or maybe even his lover's name was Katrina. Anywho, in this text, Ichabod was this guy who was pretty tall and lanky who was head over heals for the money Katrina had, and also in the text, there was this other guy named Brom Bones. Brom Bones was a tall muscular dude who also liked Katrina for her looks. Katrina, according to the text, was a pretty good looking lady who had lots of money, now don't know much about her personality, but she sounds like the whole package, so who could resist that? So you know, two guys like the same girl, blah blah blah they duke it with words, dancing and Ichabod getting a head chucked at him. I mean interesting, right? Pretty unexpected turn of events there.. I mean, who'd expect that? Irving would, that's who. The whole legend had a whole spooky and peculiar feel that really made me wonder where Irving got his idea from.. Maybe he was just bored and let his imagination run wild, maybe similar events happened to him and he just changed the names, who knows?