Which two things are personified in the folktale?

In folktales, death and misery are personified.

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device used by many authors, poets etc. In this technique, human-like traits are given to non-living objects. These objects may be plants or even animals. For example, dancing lights, howling winds, breathing curtains etc.

William Shakespeare is an extraordinary writer and has used this technique along with metaphors or similes in his plays, poems, stories, novels etc.  

Even polytheists and deities used various forms of personification. This includes classical Greek myths as well.

answer; (external conflict)

ichabod crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in washington irving's short story, "the legend of sleepy hollow", first published in 1820. in popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as "the headless horseman."