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a tree's soul wearing a body, doomed to share its fate splinter for splinter
means In Greek mythology, a female nature spirit who inhabits a tree, her life bound so closely to it that she dies when it falls.
from From Greek 'dryas' (plural 'dryades'), built on 'drys,' meaning 'tree' — and especially 'oak.' That root runs deep: it's a cousin of the same ancient word that gives us 'tree' itself and, fittingly, 'druid,' the oak-knowers. So a dryad is, at her core, simply an 'oak-being' — the word carries the timber inside it.
- bound species
- hamadryads die when their host tree falls
- name origin
- from Greek drys, meaning oak
- divine wrath
- harming their tree summoned punishment from the gods
- all female
- classical dryads were exclusively nymphs, never male
- hospitality pays
- kind woodcutters were rewarded by grateful dryads
hamadryad of ancient greece — tree nymphs bound to individual oak, ash, or pine trees in greek mythology, dying when their tree died
dryad in ovid's metamorphoses — ovid's latin epic (8 ad) features dryads as wood nymphs, including those transformed by gods