How does brom use fear to manipulate crane

Brom uses fear to manipulate Crane by telling him stories about a headless horseman because deep down, he knew that Crane was stronger, quicker and a better match for Katrina, so he resorted to the only place he could win, the mind, with fear.

This has made the town people to be afraid because of. The stories they've heard about the headless horseman who comes at night to look for his head.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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