He would have been Giles of the Scoobies but I guess the mantle now falls to Ichabod. You know what that means though - the team isn’t complete yet. 
I think they could probably use a witch.
Speaking of witches, is it me or did the actress for Ichabod’s wife change? And they show both actresses in the “previously on” promos?
The illustration Ichabod points out is not The Flight of Moloch, but The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun.
Nice catch. But then everybody looked better 200 years ago. 
Hey, I read Thomas Harris. 
Ichy finding the illustration – is it weird to you guys when that happens? I always think that when demon hunters look at old books, that the illustrations they find are artist renderings – from the imagination of the artist.
But apparently we’re supposed to believe that the artist actually saw a demon and then painted it. Or that others saw it and described it to the artist.
It takes me out of the story sometimes, having to believe that (1) someone saw a demon and survived, and (2) that they knew someone who could illustrate what they saw.
[William Blake](Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views) was “Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views”.
Perhaps he did “see things.”
Think of them as Medieval sketch artists. :eek:
Seriously though (ok, perhaps not ‘seriously’) if you read some of the occult literature, there are ways of invoking demons ‘safely’ but they involve a great deal of preparation, special ceremonial equipment, rituals, etc.
I guess you could argue that Ichy and Abby saw a demon in the mirror and survived.
And the cop’s sister is Sarah Connor, what with her penchant for doing pull ups in an insane asylum where she is wrongfully incarcerated for telling the truth and trying to prepare humanity for the coming battle.
Oh, and his name is Sheriff Kurgan :mad:
I think the awful history is part of the charm. I laugh every time I hear their alternative pronunciation of Hessian. Remember, the American Revolution was just a small part of George Washington’s larger fight against the forces of evil. That’s why he needed all those slaves, he was a busy guy.
I assume “hess-shen” is correct, rather than “hess-ee-un”? How do we know how it was pronounced in the 1770’s?
I’m not arguing, just curious.
Hessian derives from Hesse, a state in Germany (actually several principalities in Germany at the time of the revolution: Hesse-Kassal, Hesse-Hanau, etc). A person from Hesse in German is Hessen, for some reason the Anglo spelling became Hessian. But the ‘i’ is not pronounced. Miriam Webster says the pronunciation has a silent i. The first time I heard it pronounced with an active ‘i’ was in the Tim Burton movie.
But it makes no sense to me, we don’t call Russians “Russ-ee-ans”. We didn’t call Prussians “Pruss-ee-ans”.
Other than the “demon” part, I’m not sure what’s so unbelievable about that.
some movment last night. crane has left the hotel and moved to the cabin. there were 2 bags of shopping, they didn’t get totally unpacked before they were called away; don’t know if undies were in the bags.
mystery of roanoake solved!
I liked that Ellie told Ichy it was okay to ask about words he wasn’t familiar with.
I thought that the flower the Roanoke child offered Ellie was going to be the cure, and now I’m wondering why Ellie didn’t accept it. A kid offers you something nice, you take it.
I almost wish the show didn’t have the Four Horsemen as the main plot point. But if Sleepy Hollow is a magical place – like a time portal – it means that after the Horsemen are taken care of, there will still be stories to explore.
i wondered the same thing regarding the flower, then i remembered, the last thing (being) that left the town brought the plague.
i also thought the plant may be the cure, didn’t think of holy water, or taking “black vein thomas” back to the town.
Yeah, I don’t think Abbie wanted to touch anything in Roanoke for fear of contracting the sickness.
Was anybody else annoyed that they waved away the reinterpretation of Conquest as Pestilence by simply having Ichabod say “Conquest, also known as Pestilence”? I’m no biblical scholar, but I thought those two were distinct interpretations of the Horseman, and not simply the same thing by a different name.
When Ichabod was demonstrating his tracking skills, he showed Abbie a flower that would close up after somebody living touched it. The girl in “Roanoke” was holding one of those flowers–in full bloom. We later find all those people were dead…
I don’ t know how accurate they were but I felt like I could rewatch the whole show in Middle English. It was just fun to listen to and I admit I replayed those parts.
Aha! Good catch, Bridget! I admit I wasn’t paying full attention and did not make that connection.