Continuity mistake: When Ichabod and young Mazbeth are in the shop looking for information and they find the boy's father's will, Ichabod's hair changes from a neat bob to really messy and scruffy three or four times each time the shot moves away from him then back again. (01:05:25)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken, Ian McDiarmid, Jeffrey Jones, Johnny Depp, Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Miranda Richardson, Richard Griffiths
The headless horseman gets his head back. It was Katrina's stepmother controlling him, and he takes her back to hell with him. Ichabod takes Katrina and Young Masbath back to New York with him.
Charley
More mistakes in Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
High Constable: Stand down.
Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.
Trivia: When Crane starts chopping the Tree of the Dead and he gets blood in his face, this was a joke from the directors as they knew he wasn't expecting the blood. You can see the look of surprise on his face. It was well-known among the cast and crew that Johnny Depp (who played Crane) hated anything being sprayed in his face.
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Answer: It may have been because she was a widow. I'm not sure, but it was possibly frowned upon at the time.
Sierra1
The widow was pregnant with Van Garett's child.