...stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary...by; and was universally known by the name of Major Andre's tree. The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out...

...above all the other trees of the neighborhood and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary...almost to the earth and rising again into the air. As Ichabod approached this fearful tree, he began to whistle; he thought his whistle was answered....