Which section highlights the idea that literature influenced Ichabod Crane's tendency to scare easily?

Around the sixth paragraph the narrator writes,

In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried,” in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.