If one is to knit wool, mustn't one first be a woolgatherer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Ichabod, on the other hand, is totally lacking in the "reason" that might help him win Katrina more expediently - he's not only an easy-to-mock woolgatherer but a believer in spiritualist folly that makes his universe impossibly hazardous (indeed, what the superstitious receive in exchange for sensibility is the comforting promise that arbitrary rituals - such as the spilled salt Ichabod tosses over his shoulder - will protect them).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bright Lights After Dark] Reference