In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years.
Rip Van Winkle escapes from a nagging wife and falls asleep for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains before coming home. Upon hearing the story, Rip’s male neighbors are envious of the manner in which he could avoid a nagging wife for so long.
Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (level 1)Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle sets off into Catskill mountains. There he falls into a deep sleep and when he awakes, twenty years have passed. In the legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane view for the affection of Katrina Van Tassel. But his rival plays a trick on him and Ichabod runs away leaving behind him the legend of the Headless Horseman.
