Pandora  (Shannyn Sossamon)

First Appearance: “I, Witness”

Backstory: According to Greek mythology, Pandora’s box contained the evils of the world when she opened it, things went sideways. Pandora says the box, “is actually more of a dowry.”

Recent Developments: Pandora trapped the Headless Horseman in a box and walked to Sleepy Hollow. She summoned a Yao-guai, the red devils are “Known as battlefield demons. Drawn to the frenzy and energy of armed conflict. Most notably, they have the power to paralyze their victims with fear.” Their eyes turn white before they strike, thus William Prescott’s order: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” Her next minion was the “Whispering Wraith,” who feeds on secrets.

Distinguishing Features: Dark hair, captivating singing voice, dark brown eyes that sometimes glow.

Special Abilities: She can magically change her outfit to fit in with her surroundings.

Likes: dramatic capes and hooded jackets, walking

Given to: a polite and friendly demeanor, talking to herself

Notable Victims: Abbie’s boss at the FBI, Granger.

Quote: “One for sorrow, two for mirth. Three for a wedding, and four for a birth. Five for silver, six for gold. Seven for a secret… not to be told.”

Henry Parish, The Sin Eater (John Noble)

Alternate Names: Henry Parish, Jeremy Crane, the Horseman of War

First Appearance: “The Sin Eater”

Backstory: Every culture has a version of a Sin Eater, a person with the power to cleanse the wicked of their sins through reaching into their souls and swallowing the sins, ridding them of evil. Jenny Mills knew of sightings in Algeria, Japan, Ghana and the Sin Eater absolving death-row inmates. Their last words were always: “I am sanctified.” Jenny lost track of the Sin Eater for two years.

Present Day: It was discovered that  Ichabod Crane’s had a blood connection to the Headless Horseman. Unless the blood tie was severed, Crane would die if the Horseman died and vice versa. Jenny and Lieutenant Abbie Mills found the Sin Eater living under an assumed name in Hartford, Connecticut. He claimed that he was no longer a Sin Eater, but relented to Abbie’s plea. With the connection broken, Crane gained the freedom to fight the Horseman without them dying together.

Crane Family Drama Hour: Upon learning that Katrina had given birth to a son, Jeremy, who was targeted by Moloch, Ichabod again turned to Parrish for help. Despite Henry’s warning that it would bring Ichabod closer to death, he enabled Crane to communicate with his wife in Purgatory….Henry observed that Ichabod and Abbie’s fates were merged before they met. A hesitant Henry agreed to help Ichabod find info on his descendants. He also helped Ichabod to put the Golem, Jeremy’s murderous protector to rest.

Let’s Talk About Hex: Ichabod again turned to Parrish to study the cursed prayer beads Reverend Knapp had used to briefly resurrect George Washington, allowing Washington to leave a map that could help Ichabod fight evil. The hexed beads burned Henry’s hands, but he had a glimpse of Washington’s resurrection and a vision of Father Knapp ferrying Washington’s body to a secret crypt, helping them to find the map.

Psych! Henry told Abbie and Ichabod that he had a prophetic dream about Moloch raising a creature and the Horseman of War riding against a solar eclipse. Parrish concluded that Moloch planned to bring about the Apocalypse that very day, which also happened to the 13th anniversary since the Mills sisters spotted Moloch in the woods. Henry helped Abbie and Ichabod to get to Purgatory. Abbie stayed behind while the Cranes made it to modern-day Sleepy Hollow. Katrina led them to the four white trees the Mills sisters had spotted as teens. Henry bound Katrina and Ichabod to trees and revealed that he’d sent Abbie and Ichabod to the netherworld in order to separate the Witnesses by using their faith against them: The Cranes’ faith that they’d be reunited and Abbie’s faith that she had an important purpose.

Triple Threat: Henry announced that he’s the Horseman of War and also their son, Jeremy Crane. Despite the death hex placed by the Four Who Speak as One, who then confined him to a pine box, Jeremy’s powerful magic brought him back life. After 200 years, he was raised by Moloch. God sent Abbie as a Witness to stop it, but she was not yet strong enough. After dropping that bombshell, he turned Katrina over to the Headless Horseman, banished Ichabod to a grave and broke the Second Seal.

Deal with the Devil: While presenting himself as Captain Irving’s lawyer, he tricked Frank into signing over his soul in blood.

Pregnant Pause: In yet another attempt to raise Moloch, he unleashed a spider filled with poisonous Jincan venom to impregnate Katrina, so that she’d give birth to Moloch. As usual, the plan was foiled, but Eewwww. He still managed to bring a baby Moloch into the world. Demon babies grow up quickly. The overlord was ready to rise.

Giving Notice: After his Horseman of War armor was destroyed by Captain Irving who was wielding the Sword of Methuselah,  things got heated with Moloch. Despite Moloch’s order to kill Katrina, Henry killed Moloch. Good riddance.

Starting Over: With demanding boss Moloch out of the way, Henry holed up at a low-rent motel. He gave up his title as Horseman of War and is formulated new plans.

The Son Also Rises: Henry reemerged and persuaded his mother to join him on the dark side. With the use of a cursed bell, they planned to raise a coven and preside over it. With Ichabod’s consent, Abbie fatally shot Henry.

Given to: Resenting his parents, filling out crossword puzzles, tending to plants, paying close attention to train schedules, using aliases, hiding his past, whittling impressive miniatures with a pocket knife.

Notable Victim: Moloch, a group of thugs, whom he killed just by waving a hand.

Quote:  “A good puzzle misleads you. It sends you in one direction, fools you into thinking you know what’s going on. But once you’ve discovered the trick, you see that there’s often a hidden meaning.”

The Headless Horseman

Alternate Names: The Horseman of Death, Abraham Van Brunt

Appearance: “Pilot”

Backstory: A Hessian who fought on the side of the redcoats he confronted Ichabod Crane on a Hudson Valley battlefield in 1781. The Horseman slashed Ichabod’s chest with an ax, but a sword-wielding Ichabod decapitated the Horseman before seemingly dying. The combatants’ blood merged linking them. The Horseman’s body was entombed in the river, when he was resurrected in modern-day Sleepy Hollow, so was Crane, who’d been placed under a protection spell. The Horseman is actually Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Recent Developments: The Horseman returned to Sleepy Hollow to finish what he started. During his brief capture in a supernatural Masonic cell designed by Thomas Jefferson, the Horseman communicated to Ichabod that in their first battle he was on a mission to kill Crane in order to avenge the death of Abraham Van Brunt, Ichabod’s partner.

Mission: To retrieve his indestructible skull and raise the other three Horsemen: Conquest, War and Famine, and bringing about the End of Days.

Exit Sign: The Witnesses imprisoned the Horseman again. To save him from the angel Orion, Katrina freed the Horseman. He disappeared for a while, but showed up again, only to be trapped in Pandora’s box before he could make it to town.

Lingering Question: Since the Kindred ended up riding off with the skull, what’s happening with it now.

Distinguishing Features: Rides a white horse with glowing red eyes, dresses as a redcoat. His weapons include a heated broadax, shotgun and sword. He’s also been known to use explosives. He walks with a sexy swagger when he’s headless.

Special Abilities: Withstanding bullets and arrows. He has good sight and hearing for a guy missing a head.

• Likes: In the old days, he wore an S&M style mask, body modifications including as a tattoo on the back of his head and a bow branded on his hand. He also likes having a head.
• Dislikes: Sunlight and UV light
• Given To: Slowly rising from the river where his body was entombed, conspiring with Henry
• Notable Victims: Sheriff August Corbin; Reverend Alfred Knapp; Rutledge and other Freemasons; Paul Short (Vince Pisani), Captain Irving’s friend at the New York Fish & Wildlife Services

Abraham Van Brunt

Alternate Names: The Headless Horseman, Death

First Appearance: “Necromancer”

Backstory: In 1774, Ichabod’s wealthy best friend, who was betrothed to Katrina. He sought Ichabod’s advice on a gift for Katrina and Crane advised him to go with a tasteful emerald (or was it blue?) pendant instead of an ostentatious necklace. Katrina quickly deduced that the elegant gift was picked out by Ichabod. She confided to Ichabod that she was going to call off the arranged marriage because her heart belonged to him. The next day, Crane and Van Brunt went on a dangerous, clandestine and important mission to deliver the “Declaration of Resolves” to the First Continental Congress. As they walked through enemy territory, Abraham was distracted over the split and Ichabod admitted that Katrina had told him of her plans to break the engagement, and that they wished for Van Brunt’s blessing on their relationship. Abraham forced a duel, but was shot in the back by a Hessian. With more Hessians approaching, Ichabod went to help Abraham who demanded that Crane leave. Ichabod escaped.

Recent Developments: It was revealed that Moloch came to a mortally wounded Abraham, who sold his soul. His head was shaved, his hand branded and Abraham became an undead Hessian, the Horseman. In exchange for his soul, Abraham wanted Katrina.

Unchain My Heart: Using UV lights in lieu of sunlight and a hexed Masonic cell designed by Thomas Jefferson, Ichabod and Abbie briefly captured the Horseman. The prisoner used undead necromancer Andy Brooks to communicate with Ichabod and disclose that Katrina was being held in Purgatory so that her soul will belong to him. The Horseman attempted to kill Ichabod, but was prevented from doing so by Moloch…. Henry was in league with Van Brunt and once Katrina exited Purgatory, she was taken captive by Abraham. She acted as if she wanted to stay with her ex, but only so that she can spy on him. They seemed to be getting along better than expected and he’s been infuriated by some of Henry’s schemes to harm Katrina, who escaped and ended up back in Ichabod’s arms for a brief time. She returned to Abraham, supposedly to dig for more information,  but soon she was back with her husband. After Abbie and Ichabod once more trapped Abraham in the hexed cell, Katrina freed him. He hasn’t been seen since.

• Likes: Obsessing over Katrina, sword fights, walking around shirtless to impress Katrina
• Dislikes: Taking no for an answer

Jeremy Crane (Braden Fitzgerald 12 years old, Danny Rawley 17 years old)

Alternate Names: Henry Parrish, Henry Parish, The Horseman of War

First Appearance: “The Golem”

Backstory: Katrina Crane found out she was pregnant after she cast a spell on Ichabod and buried him to save his life. Her coven set out to punish her for interfering with fate, so she sought refuge at Fredericks Manor where her baby was delivered by Abbie Mills‘ ancestor Grace Dixon. Katrina named the child Jeremy after Ichabod’s grandfather. Shortly after his birth, Jeremy was targeted by Moloch, who sent the evil tree-like Scarecrow after the child. Fearing that her son would have to live as a fugitive, Katrina asked Grace and her husband Joseph to raise the child. Townspeople were afraid of the boy, claiming that he could start fires just by crying. After the Dixons died in a fire, Jeremy was sent to an orphanage where he was mistreated by a priest who beat the boy to rid him of his “affliction.” When a drop of Jeremy’s blood fell on the doll his mother had given him for protection, it summoned the Golem who killed the priest… With no one else to look out for him, Jeremy turned to the murderous Golem as a friend and father figure. When word spread about Jeremy’s growing power, Jeremy and the Golem were hunted. The Golem killed anyone who meant to harm Jeremy. When The Four Who Speak as One found Jeremy, he refused to give up the Golem, so they imprisoned the Golem in the netherworld. Unable to bring a halt to Jeremy’s evil ways, they invoked a hex to stop his heart and buried him in a pine box.

Recent Developments: Ichabod first learned of his child after Abbie had a vision at Fredericks Manor. Searching for answers, he went to the Sin Eater, Henry Parrish and a seemingly reluctant Henry helped Ichabod to communicate with Katrina in Purgatory to learn the truth about their son.

Family Crisis: After Ichabod was able to rescue Katrina from Purgatory, Henry revealed that he is actually their presumed-dead son and the Horseman of War. He waged war against the Witnesses and ended up being killed by Abbie.

Moloch

First Appearance: “Pilot”

Backstory: The demon first appeared as a blurry creature to teenaged Abbie and Jenny in the woods.

Murder and Mayhem: Moloch killed disfigured and reanimated Officer Andy Brooks, controlled a sleeper cell of Hessians and held Katrina captive in Purgatory…. Moloch posed a riddle to Ichabod: “The Saint’s name is a sign. When you know my meaning, War will take form. Then the End of Days begins!” He also vowed that he’d have Abbie’s soul, and Ichabod would be the one to deliver it. Jenny decoded the puzzling message at a church formerly known as  St. Henry’s Parish. It was revealed that Moloch raised the Horseman of War aka Henry Parrish… Moloch intended to use Katrina as part of his Apocalyptic plan. An attempt to have Katrina bring him into the world via a mystical pregnancy was thwarted, but he still ended up entering this realm as a baby, who rapidly grew up.

Well, that Backfired: After all his plotting, Moloch rose and began the End of Days. He bossed Henry around and wasn’t the least bit appreciative. Henry tired of his boss and killed him with the Sword of Methuselah.

Distinguishing Features: Horns, a lurching walk, kind of blurry

Special Abilities: Snapping necks backward “like a Pez dispenser,” communicating through mirrors, which then crack.

Notable Victims: Officer Andy Brooks

Serilda of Abaddon (Monique Ganderton, and Roxy Olin as Burned Serilda )

First Appearance: “Blood Moon”

Backstory: The high priestess of a dark coven who was believed to be allied with the Redcoats. Ichabod says that on the night of a blood moon,  near a camp in Albany, there were bodies everywhere that had been reduced to ash. and there were many more murders. Her powers were weakened by Katrina’s benevolent coven, the Sisterhood of the Radiant Heart. She was captured and burned at the stake. The magistrate who sentenced her was named Robert Daniel Furth.

Recent Developments: Assisted by the undead Officer Andy Brooks, she gathered the ashes of the descendants of her executioners and her buried bones to reclaim her flesh and resurrect herself.

Distinguishing Features: Burnt to a crisp, she speaks Romani-Greek.

Special Abilities: Magically setting her prey on fire.

Notable Victims: Jeremy Furth (Jason Davis).

Theme Music: “Witchcraft.”

Famous Last Words at the Stake: “By the turn of the Blood Moon, the ashes of your ancestry will be mine. Your flesh will be my flesh. I will live again.”

The Sandman (Marti Matulis)

Alternate Name: Ro’kenhronteys

First Appearance: “For The Triumph of Evil”

Backstory: He kills those who have turned their back on a neighbor.

Recent Developments:  He came after Abbie for failing to confirm Jenny’s story about seeing Moloch in the woods and planned to kill her in her sleep. With the help of Ichabod and Mohawk shaman Seamus Deacon the owner of Geronimotors vehicle dealership, she defeated him.

Distinguishing Features: Hollow eyes and a veil of flesh where his mouth should be

Special Abilities: When targets fall asleep, they go into a trance, their eyes glazed with white. Guilt-ridden, they commit suicide.

Notable Victims: Jenny’s former psychoanalyst Dr. Maura Vega (Mary Kraft) and Garrett Gillespie (Pete Burris), the man who found teenaged Abbie and Jenny when they went missing

Theme Music: “Mr. Sandman”

First Appearance: “The Golem”

Backstory: Members of Katrina’s coven who punished her for using a spell to save Ichabod’s life, thus altering the ordained path. They imprisoned Katrina in the netherworld.

Recent Developments: The witches are fortune tellers with a carnival. Seeking answers about his son, Jeremy, Ichabod confronted them at a carnival in Dobbs Ferry. They revealed that they had been waiting for Crane for centuries and that it was foretold that his arrival would seal their fate, they would die that night. He told them that unless they freed Katrina, the Golem would come for them. They explained that when Jeremy refused their help and would not give up his alliance with the Golem, they imprisoned the Golem in Purgatory, but Jeremy was immune to them because his power was too great. When Jeremy again refused their help and turned down an invitation to join their coven, the witches invoked a hex to stop his heart and buried him. Since death begets death, the witches’ awaited their demise. When the Golem escaped the netherworld and resumed his murder spree, the witches told Ichabod that only Jeremy’s bloodline could defeat the Golem, who ended up killing the witches.

Distinguishing Features: Finishing each other’s sentences in raspy voices, appearing never to age, pointed teeth, pale skin. wearing black lace veils

The Golem

First Appearance: In a vision in “The Sin Eater,” full appearance in“The Golem”

Backstory: When Jeremy Crane was flogged by a priest at the orphanage, a drop of his blood fell on the doll that his mother Katrina had given him for protection. His spilled blood brought the doll to life as the Golem, who snapped the priest’s neck. When word spread about Jeremy’s increasing power, he and the Golem were hunted. The creature murdered anyone who came after Jeremy. When the Four Who Speak as One found Jeremy, he refused to give up the Golem, who was his only friend, so the witches imprisoned the creature in purgatory, invoked a hex to stop Jeremy’s heart and buried him.

Recent Developments: When the Golem escaped the netherworld and resumed his murderous ways, The Four Who Speak as One revealed to Ichabod that only Jeremy’s bloodline could stop the creature. The Golem butchered the Four Who Speak as One. When Ichabod was cut by a shard of glass, he faced off with the creature. After acknowledging that the Golem was like a father to Jeremy, he begged the creature to stop killing. The Golem attacked Ichabod who stabbed him and then held the dying Golem’s hand urging him to “Be at peace.”

Distinguishing Features: Stitches where his facial features should be, an animalistic howl

Notable Victims: Historical Society librarian and witch Ms. Hudson (Kathleen York), Father Daniel (Joe Knezevich), The Four Who Speak as One.