bring out the humor in legend of sleepy hollow

The headless horseman can see (he cuts off heads).

Ichabod is the schoolmaster and smartest man in the village, yet he cannot manage his own affairs.

Knickerbocker's description of Ichabod's dancing skills;

"Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion, and clattering about the room, you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person."