Katrina Van Tassel
Background
Katrina Anne Van Tassel is a resident of Sleepy Hollow, New York. Her father is Baltus Van Tassel, her stepmother is Lady Van Tassel and her mother was Elizabeth Fenwick. Katrina was born in 1781. She is a witch. Katrina is in a relationship with Brom Van Brunt.
During the events of Sleepy Hollow (1999) played by Christina Ricci
Ichabod Crane is grabbed by Katrina, who is wearing a blindfold, and kissed, which angers a jealous Brom. He tells her he is looking for Baltus and Brom gets upset when Crane ignores his request to state who he is. At their house, Crane finds Katrina reading a book which she then hides and tells him about the death of her mother and the history of her family. She offers him a magic book, and he initially refuses to take it. They ride to the Van Tassel's original home and Crane shows Katrina the thaumatrope his mother used to show him. Back at the Van Tassel home and after relating the death of Magistrate Philipse to Katrina and Baltus, Crane faints. While searching for the Hessian Horseman's grave, Crane and Young Masbath come across Katrina who joins them. Young Masbath finds a large tree in the woods and as Crane hacks at its root ball with a hatchet, blood starts to squirt on him. He pulls back a piece of the tree and they find the heads of the victims inside. Crane finds the Horseman's sword embedded in the tree and they dig at the base of the tree and find a skeleton without a head. The Horseman rears out of the open tree wound and rides away. After he is wounded, Katrina prepares a potion for Crane and he tells her and Baltus the Horseman's victims are not random, but chosen. He later wakes up and tells Katrina what happened to Lady Crane. Afters searching in the night, Crane and Young Masbath return to the Van Tassel home and find Katrina in Crane's room reading his journal. He returns to the house and finds the will and marriage license of Peter Van Garrett gone and then finds Katrina at her first home, burning them in the fire place. Katrina curses the day Crane arrived in Sleepy Hollow and rides away. Before a meeting at the church, Baltus runs to the church and tells Katrina, the Horseman killed Lady Van Tassel. The Horseman circles the church but cannot enter. As Doctor Lancaster begins to admit to Baltus, he and the others betrayed him, Reverend Steenwyck hits him in the forehead with a cross, killing him and Baltus shoots Steenwyck dead. The Horseman ties a rope to a broken fence post and throws it into a window, impaling Baltus, who he then drags out of the church and cuts off his head.
Crane looks down and sees a pentagram like the one under his bed and thinks Katrina was the one to bring the Horseman to life. Lady Van Tassel kidnaps Katrina and brings her to the windmill and calls forth the Horseman. She admits to Katrina that she killed Sarah and tells Katrina of her family's background and being evicted from her home by Peter Van Garrett after her father died. She goes over all those she murdered or had murdered including the Crone. Young Masbath runs and grabs Katrina and they run to Crane who then brings them back into the windmill and he tries to board the door. They escape to the roof of the windmill as the Horseman chases them and Crane sets the contents of the mill on fire. They then run away from the windmill, which explodes, but fail to kill the Horseman. They take Van Ripper's carriage and ride away. The Horseman rides after them and they eventually arrive at his burial place. Lady Van Tassel shoots Crane and then grabs Katrina by the hair. Crane sees the bag holding the Horesman's skull and takes it from Lady Van Tassel with the help of Young Masbath and offers it to the Horseman. The Horseman puts his skull back on and then grabs Lady Van Tassel and drags her spirit to hell with him after giving her a bloody kiss. Crane, Katrina and Young Masbath then travel to their new home in New York City.