Katrina Van Tassel (1999)

Katrina Van Tassel is the dueteragonist of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. She serves as love interest to Ichabod Crane and the daughter of the late Baltus and the late Elizabeth Van Tassel.
She is portrayed by Christina Ricci who also portrayed Kat Harvey in Casper, Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991), Liza Bump on the fifth and final season of Ally McBeal (2002), Marilyn Thornhill on Netflix's Wednesday in 2022, and Catwoman / Selina Kyle in the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader (2024). 
== Background ==
Katrina was born to Baltus and Elizabeth Van Tassel in the 1770s/1780s. When she was a child, her mother got very sick. The Van Tassels hired a young Mary Archer to be Elizabeth's nurse. However, Elizabeth supposedly died of her sickness, leaving Katrina heartbroken. Soon, her father married Mary, who became the new Lady Van Tassel. 
Unknown to Katrina, Mary had secretly poisoned Elizabeth and was plotting to steal the Van Tassel family fortune and it's estate because the land used to belong to her family.
At some point, Katrina was engaged to be married to Abraham "Brom" Bones. 
== Sleepy Hollow ==
=== Learning the Truth ===
Katrina burns the evidence linking to her father and proclaimed Ichabod as heartless, when she had a mind to give him hers. Ichabod says he does believe she was in love with him on the day they were in the West Woods. Angered, she cursed Ichabod since the day he came to Sleepy Hollow before she flees on her horse. 
Later that night, Katrina and the town retreat to the local church when the Horseman returns. Katrina places a protection spell around the church so the Horseman cannot come through. She witnessed her father shoot one of the citizens and watches as her father is killed by the Headless Horseman. 
After the attack, Katrina returned home, now an orphan. When he's leaving Sleepy Hollow after believing Katrina is the cause of all the chaos, he looks at them, recalls the scar on Lady Van Tassel's hand, and is able to put two and two together; the cut on the body believed to be Lady Van Tassel was made postmortem, and she faked her death. It is reading in this book (it's Katrina's book of spells) that makes Ichabod realize that Katrina is not an evil witch, as he then thought, but a good one; and that she loves him, because he reads that her spell was "to protect a loved one". 
However, when she was home alone, she fainted upon seeing that her stepmother had faked her death. After explaining her past to Karina, Mary summons the Hessian from the grave to kill Katrina, who was then the sole heir for the Van Tassels and a relative of the Van Garretts. However, Katrina was saved by Young Masbath and Ichabod. They were chased by the Horseman until they were cornered by Lady Van Tasel who personally held onto Katrina's hair and told the Horseman to kill her. However, she is knocked off her horse by Ichabod and Masbath, who both manage to return the head to the Hessian, who takes Mary and gives her a bloody kiss before taking her to hell to pay her debt to the Devil. 
=== Leaving for New York ===
Following this horrific ideal, Katrina and Young Masbeth wish to leave their small hometown behind due to the painful and scary reminder of what they lost. They move with Ichabod to New York City at the start of the New Year and the turn of the century. 
== Powers and abilities ==
* Katrina becomes a white witch powerful enough to cast spells that protect those she loves. She's also able to control two panicked horses to outrun the Horseman when he's after her.
== Trivia ==
* Unlike the short story, Katrina and Ichabod end up together, similar to the 1980 television movie with Jeff Goldblum.
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