From listless rest of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this bound glen has long been known as Sleepy Hollow, and its rustic lads are called Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade much atmosphere. Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement, others that an old Indian chief was prophet or magician his tribe, his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. Sure, the place still continues under the influence of any Witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of good people, causing them to move in a continuous dreams. They are given to all kinds of amazing performances, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted places and twilight superstitions, stars shoot and meteors glare more often across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her ​​whole ninefold, seems to make the favorite scene of her gambols - Legend!