 They kind of worshipped oak. I don't know if they actually worshipped oak trees, but oak trees were sacred because, well, they were big. And there was the Donner's Oak in Fritzlar, which is 25 miles north of where both my parents' ancestral towns, they were born here, but they're families. And great story. He took an axe to it, and according to the story, a great wind came and knocked the tree down so that Boniface didn't even have to finish