The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Unreliable Narrator 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis—"Authentic" Histories:

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is narrated by a fictional historian named Diedrich Knickerbocker. Knickerbocker claims that he is trying to relate a “precise and authentic” history of Ichabod Crane’s encounter with the Headless Horseman. However, he goes on to explain that the authentic historians of Sleepy Hollow spend their time collecting old wives’ tales about local ghosts.