An Exchange of Gifts

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According to the Inkworks Trading Cards, Ichabod and Katrina exchanged gifts. Gifts of great significance to each giver. She gave him a book which belonged to her mother, A Compendium of Spells, Charms and Devices of the Spirit World, which we see in the film. He, in a scene deleted, gave to her the thaumatrope he had since childhood, a gift from his mother. 

In the novelization, the scene is as follows:
"It is no magic. It is optics." He handed her the toy and demonstrated the spinning technique. Separate pictures become like one picture in the spinning . . . like the truth that I must spin here."

 Katrina held the string.

 Ichabod watched the toy bird as it stood at the edge, free, unsuspecting, and oblivious to the prison that seemed so safely far away.
Katrina gave the string a sharp spin. The cage didn't move from it's spot, of course, and neither did the bird. 

 Nonetheless, the trap was all around, the way it is in life. It just depended on how you looked at it.

As it is described in The Art of Sleepy Hollow:

ICHABOD
It is no magic. It is optics. 

Ichabod gives her the Toy and shows her how to spin it. 

ICHABOD (CONT'D)
Separate pictures which become one picture in the spinning  . . . Like the truth that I must spin here.

 Katrina spins the disk, the bird appears in the cage.

I believe Ichabod was originally shown giving Katrina the thaumatrope. The scenes of him in thought nervously spinning the disk appear to have been shot at a later date and could easily have been added. As noted elsewhere on this blog, Ichabod's hair length acts as an aid in determining when reshoots were made. His hair in the scenes below matches with others I believe were late additions. 

 Personally, I prefer the thought of Ichabod giving to Katrina so important an item. The vision of her spinning the toy, thinking of him, is so much more meaningful than Ichabod simply using it while he thinks.





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