When the headless horseman is attacking the priest in the churchyard, the priest uses magic to wrap the horseman in chains. The horseman uses his broad axe to sever the chains, one of which lashes back and slices the top off a street sign. When the sign is seen from the front later, it is a horse rider warning sign which now has the rider's head sliced off.
The city sign that the bird lands on just after Crane is struck by the car shows the population of Sleepy Hollow at 144,000 the same number the book of Revelation indicates as those that are servants of God and have been sealed on the forehead.
Soon after production was started and promos were broadcast, the town of Sleepy Hollow saw a boost in tourism. Visitors from around the world flooded the town's annual Halloween events such as haunted hay rides, graveyard tours and costume contests. The town had hoped to buy some advertising for tourism, but felt network advertising would be far too expensive.
The tombstone of Ichabod's wife Katrina states that she died at the age of 32 in 1782; burnt after being convicted of witchcraft.
Of the approximately 25 women and girls convicted of witchcraft in the 13 colonies between 1648 and 1692, none met their end strapped to a stake; they were all hanged. And while it's true that women of this period were burned at the stake as a form of capital punishment, most of them were not White -- they were Black. White women were usually spared from the searing flames; if these women did receive capital sentences, they met their deaths dangling from a noose. From a Washington Post articlr by: Kali Nicole Gross , the national endowment for the humanities professor of African American studies at Emory University