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Dryads are a rare and precious sight in contemporary art.

Ancient people did this to summon dryads, the benevolent spirits inside trees.

I still have my debut as Mercedes and the Queen of the Dryads on Saturday night [in "Don Quixote"].

Unavowed's urban fantastical imagination, which puts mysterious detective plots into conversation with jinn and mediums and dryads, undoes all of that.

I was sure that OREADs, a flavor of mountain nymph, would be seen flitting fairly infrequently through the puzzle, but they are actually pretty common, more so than dryads and naiads.

Life, apparently, finds a way as long as demons and dryads can make deals, and the game purposefully plays with the player's expectations about what kinds of creatures might appear in an adventure game of urban fantasy.

When we touch paper every day, spend most of our time in structures made from wood, and eat food nearly every day that came from a tree, we are far more connected to trees and like Dryads than our conscious minds might think.

When they heard a high-pitched sound from her music box, they awoke and started turning Eliza to wood to stave off her illness. Since then, the Landlord has controlled the Dryads to keep Eliza well while signing on new tenants to become the Dryads' source of nourishment. Eliza is dismayed to find she has been "living" for so long without an actual life outside the house. Being able to control the Dryads, Eliza takes the Landlord into a hug, over his objections, and thanks the Doctor before having the Dryads consume them, while also reconstituting all of Bill's friends.

Miecz przeznaczenia Geralt heads to Brokilon, the Last Forest, to deliver a message to the queen of the dryads, Eithne, from King Venzlav. He finds a small group of bodies left by the dryads, along with one survivor, his friend Freixenet, alive but badly wounded. Dryads accost Geralt and the dryad Braenn agrees to take him to see Eithne after recognizing him and hearing his quest. Geralt and Braenn happen upon and kill a giant centipede threatening a young girl named Ciri, who joins their group.

Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28 The feature is named after the Dryads, tree nymphs in Greek mythology.

If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees.

Ciri takes a quick shine to Geralt and explains that she is a princess and was going to be married off to Prince Kistrin, son of King Ervyll, but ran away. Braenn, Geralt, and Ciri arrive in Duen Canell, the heart of Brokilon. Freixenet's wounds have been being treated, as the dryads intend for him to impregnate some of them (Geralt was used for the same purpose when he last visited Brokilon, but his coupling with Eithne's daughter failed to produce any offspring). Ciri begins to realize that the dryads plan to keep her--the dryads are fighting an unending war for the forest and bolster their numbers by taking and brainwashing young girls into the dryad culture (of which Braenn once was one).

Bill and Shireen see Pavel half-absorbed in the wall, and the Landlord appears, striking a tuning fork which causes Pavel to disappear completely. The Doctor discovers the house's woodwork infested with insect-like creatures he calls Dryads. They are responsible for drawing the others into the woodwork prior to consuming them. The Doctor and Harry soon find evidence that every twenty years, a new set of students have been brought to the house to feed the Dryads.

The Landlord arrives and admits that he needs the Dryads to keep his daughter Eliza alive in the tower. Eliza, on display at a Doctor Who exhibition The Doctor and Bill converge on the tower, finding Eliza's body is now made completely of wood. The Doctor determines that the Landlord is actually Eliza's son, a memory long forgotten. As a boy, he had brought his terminally-ill mother some dormant Dryads he found, unaware of their power.

She made her official début at the Mariinsky Theatre in Pavel Gerdt's Les Dryades prétendues (The False Dryads). Her performance drew praise from the critics, particularly the great critic and historian Nikolai Bezobrazov.

On their way to Camp Jupiter, they are attacked by eurynomos, but a girl with pink hair arrives with dryads and a faun and kills the Eurynomous. She then introduces herself as Lavinia and says she will take them to camp Jupiter. After that, all the dryads and fauns start to leave. But as the last faun, Don, tries to leave, Lavinia spots him and said that he will not leave because of what he is supposed to owe Lavinia for helping him.

The nurse is too far away to hear the Princess's calls. Trembling, the Princess looks to find her way, walking through the trees and trying to get out of the forest, she disappears among them. Scene 7 Little by little, the stage fills with dryads, who have gathered for diversion. Scene 8 After the dryads’ dance, a curtain rises at the back of the stage and in the clear distance; the Queen's shade is seen, wrathfully threatening the Princess's nurse for having spared her.

Apollo, the Muses and the Dryads Perry 433. Aphrodite and the Merchant Perry 434. The Wren on the Eagle's Back Perry 435. The Black Cat Perry 436. The Priest of Cybele and the Lion Perry 437.

Geralt of Rivia recovers in Brokilon Forest under the care of the dryads, but he is intent on leaving as quickly as possible and searching for Ciri. The Dryads' queen introduces him to Milva, an expert archer who ranges outside the forest, guiding scattered bands of Scoia'tael to refuge in Brokilon. Despite not particularly liking the convalescing witcher, she agrees to accompany him and his friend Dandelion, on his way towards Nilfgaard and hopefully, Ciri. The journey is not easy, the war is encroaching seemingly from all directions and nearly every city is ablaze.

Apollo found Dryope tending her sheep on a mountainside. She was accompanied by other dryads. He hid behind a tree and watched her. He disguised himself as a turtle in order for her to get closer to her.

A dryad (; , sing.: ) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. Drys signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for tree nymphs in general,Graves, ch. 86.2; p.

The dryads of the ash tree were called the Meliae. The Meliae sisters tended the infant Zeus in Rhea's Cretan cave. Gaea gave birth to the Meliae after being made fertile by the blood of castrated Uranus. The Caryatids were associated with walnut trees.

They are also called Maliades or Meliades (Μηλιαδες) which means "of sheep" or "of apples". Like other dryads, they can shape-shift from trees to humans. They are also known to be the guards of the tree that the Golden Fleece was kept on.

Ciri and Geralt awaken at the edge of Brokilon, having been released by Eithne. The two begin moving back towards Brugge to give Eithne's refusal to concede any part of the forest to King Venzlaz. The two come across a group of Verdan mercenaries, sent by King Ervyll, who have murdered a group of merchants and plan to use the incident to provoke war with the dryads. Geralt fights them while Ciri hides (using advice from a bedtime story Geralt told her earlier) and is helped by a group of dryads and the druid Mousesack, who has been sent to bring Ciri home to Cintra.

For this performance the Imperial Theatre's Premier maître de ballet Marius Petipa re-choreographed the ballet and commissioned the composer Riccardo Drigo to expand his original score with music for new dances. Among these additions was a new Grand Pas des dryads arranged for a corps de ballet of dryads led by a new character called the Dryad Queen that Petipa created for his daughter Marie. Also included were two new solo variations for the principal role of Ilka and for the Genie of the forest, respectively. The variation for Ilka featured an obbligato solo for harp arranged by Drigo for the virtuoso harpist Albert Zabel.

Drias, also referred to as "Dryas" (), is a village located in Kavala regional unit, Greece. The village takes its name after the mythological Greek nymphs Dryads (). A Dryad is specifically the nymph of oak trees. Locations near Drias include the small villages of Paleochori (Kavala), and Antifilippi.

Two 15 year old boys, Idas and Alcon both have sex with a girl called Donace. Donace becomes pregnant and her parents imprison her. Idas and Alcon convene under a plane tree and sing/play music about her. Idas' song invokes the Dryads and Napaean Nymphs and Naiads.

Musette (from Ariodante, and later "He shall feed His flock" from Messiah) :6. Minuet (from Il pastor fido 1734 version) :7. Pastoral (from "Non tardate", Parnasso in Festa, and later "Dryads, Sylvans" from The Triumph of Time and Truth). :8. Finale (from "Ballo" and "March", Il pastor fido 1734 version.

She appears as half human-half tree, with leaves for hair and, as Dryads are mostly naked, her clothes. The discovery and use of a natural hot spring in her forest has caused speculation that Kii comes from a much warmer climate than Japan, with the colder weather causing a state of depression.

Dryads keel was laid in April 1865, and she was launched on 25 September 1866. On 13 February 1867, she struck rocks off Downderry, Cornwall and was beached in Whitsand Bay. The accident was attributed to her compasses being five points out. She was refloated and taken in to Plymouth, Devon for repairs.

Jason Woodrue first appears in The Atom #1 (June–July 1962). Woodrue is an exile from an interdimensional world (Floria) inhabited by dryads. Woodrue, sometimes called the Plant Master, uses his advanced botanical knowledge to control plant growth in an attempt to take over the world. He is defeated by the superhero Atom.

The iele are feminine mythical creatures in Romanian mythology. There are several differing descriptions of their characteristics. Often they are described as faeries (zâne in Romanian), with great seductive power over men, with magic skills and attributes similar to nymphs, naiads and dryads found in Greek mythology. They are also similar to the Samodivas in Bulgaria.

The Night Star announces the arrival of her sovereign. The other stars are persuaded to descend from the heavens and to take part in the Festival of Darkness. A group of naiads and nereids rise up from the depth of the lake, while dryads emerge from the trunks of the ancient oaks. All dance in the moonlight.

After only one New York performance in the role, Copeland withdrew from the entire ABT season due to six stress fractures in her tibia. She was sidelined for seven months after her October surgery.Copeland and Jones, pp. 251–55 Upon her return to the stage, she danced the Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote in May 2013.

On 3 August 1874 he became captain of the screw sloop HMS Dryad from commissioning at Devonport. Dryad served on the North America and West Indies Station until December 1877. Domvile was promoted to captain on 27 March 1876, whilst serving in Dryad. Commander John Edward Stokes replaced him as Dryads captain some time in 1877.

Pan and a hamadryad, found in Pompeii A hamadryad (; ) is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a certain tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual tree, while normal dryads are simply the entities, or spirits, of the trees.

The Seekers find the child before Zelek in the attempt of keeping her safe from Maletoth. However, Zelek learns of this plan and uses the Beast to slaughter everyone involved in protecting the child, including Aarbron's father. Killing his father awakens Aarbron. He pursues Zelek, who had found refuge in the lands of the Dryads and given the child to the Queen of the land.

PIMS, 2005. , 9780888441515 References to contemporary Diana worship exist from the 6th century on the Iberian peninsula and what is now southern France, though more detailed accounts of Dianic cults were given for the Low Countries, and southern Belgium in particular. Many of these were probably local goddesses, and wood nymphs or dryads, which had been conflated with Diana by Christian writers Latinizing local names and traditions.

She is then discovered by dryads and other forest creatures who take delight in her beauty, but they frighten her upon awakening. The Genie of the Forest enters and soon falls in love with Ilka. With the aid of the forest creatures, the Genie begs Ilka to become his queen. Upon learning that she has a human fiancé, the Genie threatens her and she falls faint again.

In Dragonwatch, one of the main characters who aid Seth and Kendra with their mission is Calvin, who aided Kendra and Seth with their primary mission. ;Nymphs: Immortal beings in human female form. The types of Nymphs found in Fablehaven are Dryads, Hamadryads, and Naiads. ;Octobear: One of the evil creatures released with the Demon Bahumat, resembling an animal that is part bear with several tentacles like an octopus.

According to Los Angeles Times writer Jevon Phillips, she is the first African American woman to dance the role. The same month, she was praised in the dual role of Queen of the Dryads and Mercedes in Don Quixote by Brian Seibert of The New York Times, although Jerry Hochman of Critical Dance felt that she was not as impressive in the former role as in the latter.

Dryads visits to Ascension Island brought welcome relief to the crew from the torrid climate of West Africa, as well as fresh provisions and time ashore for recreation. It also gave them time to water, refit and paint her. Dryad carried out hydrography, too. In 1832 The Nautical Magazine recorded one such occasion: On 21 or 22 February 1831 Black Joke captured a slaver with 300 slaves on board.

On 10 September Fair Rosamond and Black Joke captured the Spanish slave vessels Regulo and Rapido. On 15 February 1832, Black Joke captured Spanish schooner Frasquita, alias Centilla. This vessel too yielded bounty money for the slaves on board her. Dryads voyage home started in The Gambia on 31 May 1832, and after a short stop in the Azores at the beginning of July, she arrived in Portsmouth on 25 July.

Joe goes to Dan Pringle's office to tell what happened; Pringle suspects it some sort of trick perpetrated by union organizers. The two return to the pile, where Pringle encounters a young woman who, to his disquiet, seems invisible and inaudible to anyone but him. Dismissing Joe, he confronts her alone. The woman identifies herself as Aceria, a sphendamniad, or maple spirit, as distinct from dryads, which are oak spirits.

The ballet was inspired by the enchantress, Circe, from Homer's Odyssey. The pricey production lasted five and half hours and the Queen and King both participated in the performance. The Queen, along with a group of lady court dancers arrived on a fountain that was three tiers high dressed as dryads. The dancers were entering and exiting from both sides of the set, which was unusual for previous court ballets.

Deities are often imagined in human shape (also known as "anthropotheism"), sometimes as hybrids (especially the gods of Ancient Egyptian religion). A fragment by the Greek poet Xenophanes describes this tendency, In animism in general, the spirits innate in certain objects (like the Greek nymphs) are typically depicted in human shape, e.g. spirits of trees (Dryads), of the woodlands (the hybrid fauns), of wells or waterways (Nereids, Necks), etc.

The architect of these dark plans is the demon lord Anharat. Thousands of years ago Anharat and his people the Windborn ruled over men and fed upon them like cattle. The Windborn were all spirit creatures and ranged from good spirits like dryads to creatures of bloodshed and pain. Anharat's twin brother, the demon lord Emsharas, betrayed his people and joined three human kings rebelling against the Windborn.

Simon also composed orchestrations for the ballet Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, in particular for the Danse de Mercedes and several variations, such as that of the dryads in the dream tableau. Antoine Simon composed his own compositions for ballet as well, like La Fille de Gudule, whose choreography was by Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky, Les Étoiles (1898) by Khlioustine, Les Fleurs vivantes (1899), performed at Bolshoi Theatre. Simon's archives are kept in in Moscow.

According to Greek mythology, Arcadia of Peloponnesus was the domain of Pan, a virgin wilderness home to the god of the forest and his court of dryads, nymphs and other spirits of nature. It was one version of paradise, though only in the sense of being the abode of supernatural entities, not an afterlife for deceased mortals. Greek mythology inspired the Roman poet Virgil to write his Eclogues, a series of poems set in Arcadia.

Pompey's Pillar National Monument 100 Pound Native Montana wolf taken in 1928 Vegetation of the state includes lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, larch, spruce, aspen, birch, red cedar, hemlock, ash, alder, rocky mountain maple and cottonwood trees. Forests cover about 25% of the state. Flowers native to Montana include asters, bitterroots, daisies, lupins, poppies, primroses, columbine, lilies, orchids, and dryads. Several species of sagebrush and cactus and many species of grasses are common.

All the names for various classes of nymphs have plural feminine adjectives, most agreeing with the substantive numbers and groups of nymphai. There is no single adopted classification that could be seen as canonical and exhaustive. Some classes of nymphs tend to overlap, which complicates the task of precise classification. e.g. Dryads and hamadryads as nymphs of trees generally, meliai as nymphs of ash trees, and naiads as nymphs of water, but no others specifically.

This is perhaps reflected in how Aslan also gives speech to spiritual aspects of nature, such naiads in the water and dryads in the trees. Andrew Ketterley and Jadis represent an opposite, evil approach of bending the forces of nature to human will for the purpose of self gain. They see nature solely as a resource to use for their plans and thus disturb and destroy the natural order.Myers, pp. 169–70.

Rådande or löfjerskor are tree spirits in Swedish faerie mythology, similar to the dryads and hamadryads of Greek and Roman mythology. In Swedish folklore, a rå is a spirit connected to a place, object or animal; examples are the skogsrå (a forest being) and sjörå (a water being). Thus, the word rådande or råande may derive from rå and ande, "spirit". It may also be a corruption of trädande (plural trädandar), meaning tree spirit).

Väinämöinen, the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, is an old and wise demigod, who is possessed a potent, magical singing voice. Picture of the Väinämöinen's Play by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1866. The English term "demi-god" is a calque of the Latin word , "half-god". The Roman poet Ovid probably coined semideus to refer to less important gods, such as dryads.

In Greek mythology, the Meliae are nymphs associated with the ash, perhaps specifically of the manna ash (Fraxinus ornus), as dryads were nymphs associated with the oak. They appear in Hesiod's Theogony. In Norse mythology, a vast, evergreen ash tree Yggdrasil ("the steed (gallows) of Odin"), watered by three magical springs, serves as axis mundi, sustaining the nine worlds of the cosmos in its roots and branches. Askr, the first man in Norse myth, literally means 'ash'.

The Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia lists: > Hsiao (Guardian Owl) The hsiao (sh-HOW) are a race of peaceful cleric- > philosophers who inhabit woodlands and forests. Hsiao look like giant owls > with broad feathered wings and large intelligent golden eyes. These > creatures live in trees, making earthen nests and tunnels high above the > forest floor. The hsiao know and work closely with other woodland creatures > (including actaeons, centaurs, dryads, elves, treants, and unicorns), and > may call on them for aid.

The particular form of veneration of Artemis at KaryaiThe feminine plural of the placename suggests an archaic "sisterhood of Karya"; see William Reginald Halliday, ed., The Greek Questions of Plutarch, 1928:181; Jennifer K. McArthur, Place-names in the Knossos Tablets: Identification and Location, 1993:26. suggests that in pre-classical ritual Carya was goddess of the nut treeCompare dryads and the ash-tree nymphs called meliai. who was later assimilated into the Olympian goddess Artemis.

Idalia, Shalkan and Kellen are forced to move into Elven lands, while the other folk (sylphs, dryads, fauns, pixies, gnomes, and centaurs) have to go north towards the mountains. As Kellen, Idalia, and Shalkan approach the Elven lands, Kellen notices that the woods are different from the wild wood and there are no other folk. When Kellen meets the elves he thinks they are perfect in every way. Their beauty and their whole civilization seem perfect.

The period also saw a revival of older themes in fantasy literature, such as C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, which, while featuring many such classical beings as fauns and dryads, mingles them freely with hags, giants, and other creatures of the folkloric fairy tradition.Briggs (1967) p. 209. Victorian flower fairies were popularized in part by Queen Mary’s keen interest in fairy art and by British illustrator and poet Cicely Mary Barker's series of eight books published in 1923 through 1948.

Maria Barring (known as Milva) is a talented female archer who was one of the few non dryads who was tolerated in Brokilon. After guiding the remains of the beaten Scoia'tael commandos during the second war she joined Geralt's quest to find Ciri. She would later reveal herself to be pregnant and would struggle between choosing an abortion or keeping the child. In the end she would later miscarry after being wounded during the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga.

La promenade (1875) by Claude Monet. At that time in the West, the upper social class used parasols, long sleeves and hats to avoid sunlight's tanning effects. Captioned "Dryads of the Rocks," from a 1924–1925 yearbook, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin Sunbathing on a cruise ship, 2009 Tanning has gone in and out of fashion. In the United States and Western Europe before about the 1920s, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes, because they worked outdoors and were exposed to the sunlight.

Geralt of Rivia (Polish: Geralt z Rivii), known also as Gwynnbleid (Old Speech: "White Wolf", given to him by the Dryads) or the "Butcher of Blaviken", is a witcher and the protagonist of the Witcher series and its adaptations. He has been described as a character embodying "the neo-liberal anti-politics" spirit of the Polish popular culture of the 1990s. He is linked to Ciri by destiny, this being the central plot of the saga. In the TV series, Geralt is portrayed by Henry Cavill.

Scene from Les Sylphides A ballet blanc (, "white ballet") is a scene in which the ballerina and the female corps de ballet all wear white dresses or tutus.Cyril W. Beaumont, A French-English Dictionary of Technical Terms Used in Classical Ballet (London: Beaumont, 1959), p. 4. Typical in the Romantic style of ballet from the nineteenth century, ballets blancs are usually populated by ghosts, dryads, naiads, enchanted maidens, fairies, and other supernatural creatures and spirits.Ivor Guest, The Romantic Ballet in Paris (Alton, Hampshire: Dance Books, 2008).

For archaic Greek spirits within oak trees, see Dryads. With the goose under his arm, Dummling heads for an inn, where, as soon as his back is turned, the innkeeper's daughter attempts to pluck just one of the feathers of pure gold, and is stuck fast (Greed A-T Type 68A; Justice is Served). Her sister, coming to help her, is stuck fast too. And the youngest (Least of Three), determined not to be left out of the riches, is stuck to the second.

La Forêt enchantée was soon transferred to the repertory of the Imperial Ballet. Revisions were made to the ballet, among them was the changing of the name of the ballerina's character from Valeria to Ilka, while the danseur's character was changed from Petrus to Josi. Choreographic changes were made as well, among them was Ivanov's expansion of the corps de ballet of dryads. The first performance was given on at the Mariinsky Theatre on a bill with Jules Perrot's ballet La naïade et le pêcheur.

In 2006 she joined as a principal dancer of the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper, and in 2010 she was appointed as the first solo dancer of the Vienna State Ballet. Among her most important roles at the Mariinsky Theatre included Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake", Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote", Lilac Fairy in "The Sleeping Beauty" as well as roles in George Balanchine's "Apollo," "The Four Temperaments" and "La Valse". Olga Esina also performed at the Vienna Opera Ball, 2010 and 2012.

Cerioporus squamosus aka Polyporus squamosus is a basidiomycete bracket fungus, with common names including dryad's saddle and pheasant's back mushroom. It has a widespread distribution, being found in North America, Australia, Asia, and Europe, where it causes a white rot in the heartwood of living and dead hardwood trees. The name "dryad's saddle" refers to creatures in Greek mythology called dryads who could conceivably fit and ride on this mushroom, whereas the pheasant's back analogy derives from the pattern of colors on the bracket matching that of a pheasant's back.

In her youth, she was a member of the Assassin's Guild of the Homelands version of Hamlin. She keeps lambs, and Mary's lamb used to be one of them. Bo is one of the supporting characters of Peter and Max: A Fables Novel, and is mentioned in the Super Team story arc. She and her husband make a brief appearance in Fables 91 (chapter five of the Witches story arc), where they can be seen among the Fables standing in the background when the dryads are enjoying the falling snow.

The humans were victorious, and became dominant; the non-human races, now considered second- class citizens, often live in small ghettos within human settlements. Those not confined to the ghettos live in wilderness regions not yet claimed by humans. Other races on the Continent are halflings and dryads; werewolves and vampires appeared after a magical event, known as the Conjunction of the Spheres. During the centuries preceding the stories, most of the Continent's southern regions have been taken over by the Nilfgaard Empire; the north belongs to the fragmented Northern Kingdoms.

Nero uses Greek fire in a last attempt to destroy the grove. The dryads come to help, consuming the fire to save the grove and sacrificing themselves in the process. Apollo helps Meg put the wind chimes on the largest tree, which gives a prophecy to Apollo. Meg releases him from her service and runs away, insisting that Nero isn't “the Beast” and there's still hope for him. Apollo realizes that she views Nero and “the Beast” as two separate people, a result of Nero's years of mental/emotional abuse.

La Sylphide, this landmark work from 1832 which introduced romanticism in ballet and made Marie Taglioni a world-famous ballerina, became one of Platel's signature roles during her career at the Paris Opera. In that same year she also learned and danced the leading roles in Swan Lake, Paquita, and Giselle. At the issue of her debut as Giselle on 23 December 1981 she was nominated "étoile". When Rudolf Nureyev was invited in 1981 to mount his Don Quixote for the Paris Opera, he chose Platel to dance the Queen of the Dryads.

Myths often revolved around heroes and their actions, such as Heracles and his twelve labors, Odysseus and his voyage home, Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece and Theseus and the Minotaur. Many species existed in Greek mythology. Chief among these were the gods and humans, though the Titans (who predated the Olympian gods) also frequently appeared in Greek myths. Lesser species included the half-man-half-horse centaurs, the nature based nymphs (tree nymphs were dryads, sea nymphs were Nereids) and the half man, half goat satyrs.

Besides the Olympians, the Greeks also worshipped various local deities. Among these were the goat-legged god Pan (the guardian of shepherds and their flocks), Nymphs (nature spirits associated with particular landforms), Naiads (who dwelled in springs), Dryads (who were spirits of the trees), Nereids (who inhabited the sea), river gods, satyrs (a class of lustful male nature spirits), and others. The dark powers of the underworld were represented by the Erinyes (or Furies), said to pursue those guilty of crimes against blood-relatives. The Greek deities, like those in many other Indo-European traditions, were anthropomorphic.

During 2007-2011 Matsak was a regular guest at the International Festival of Classical Ballet named after Rudolf Nureyev in Kazan (ХХ-XXIV). The parts performed by her at the festival were Odette-Odile from Swan Lake, Medora from Le Corsaire, the Queen of the Dryads from Don Quixote, Gamzatti and Nikiya from La Bayadère, the Lilac Fairy from Sleeping Beauty. At the same time the ballerina constantly toured with the ballet companies of the National Opera House of Ukraine and other international theaters, performing on stages in Italy, Spain, Portugal, United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Korea.

Tall Tales of the Wee Folk is a Creature Crucible supplement that describes the society and background of creatures such as brownies, sprites, dryads, leprechauns, centaurs, pixies, fauns, hsiao, pookas, sidhe, treants, wood imps, and woodrakes, and outlines rules for playing them as player characters (PCs). It also details rules for special woodland magic. Tall Tales of the Wee Folk describes the woodland realm of the Dreamland, which is ruled by the fairy king, Oberon. The Dreamland is home to many creatures drawn from diverse mythological sources, from Celtic sidhe to ancient Greek centaurs and fauns.

The origin of the custom may be in Celtic or German folklore, wherein supernatural beings are thought to live in trees, and can be invoked for protection. One explanation states that the tradition derived from the Pagans who thought that trees were the homes of fairies, spirits, dryads and many other mystical creatures. In these instances, people might knock on or touch wood to request good luck, or to distract spirits with evil intentions. When in need of a favour or some good luck, one politely mentioned this wish to a tree and then touched the bark, representing the first "knock".

In 1983, Guillem won the gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition, which later in the year earned her her first solo role, dancing the Queen of the Dryads in Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote. In December 1984, after her performance in Nureyev's Swan Lake, she became the Paris Opera Ballet's youngest-ever étoile, the company's top-ranking female dancer. In 1987 she performed the lead role in William Forsythe's contemporary ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated with one of her favourite partners, Laurent Hilaire. In 1988 she was given the title role in a production of Giselle staged by the Royal Ballet to celebrate Nureyev's 50th birthday.

Louisiana Advertiser, October 7, 1826. Written in the port folio of a Gentleman at the Columbia Springs, of Charles Stovall esq. on Pearl river, Mississippi, in 1826.Louisiana Advertiser, October 7, 1826. In this retired sequestered scene, Where Dryads sport in mantles green; Far from the noisy maddening throng; The minstrel wakes his sylvan song. What chastened beauties strike the eye As flood and field commingling lie; And verdant groves or flowery dell, Where peace and pleasure love to dwell? With circling course, Pearl pours his flood, Through sunny glades and forests rude; While glistening with the orient day, Around his chrystal waters play.

When the Wonder Woman comic book was revamped and started anew in the mid-1980s this was scrapped and the island only had common game animals such as deer, wild boar, horses, and fish. The only exotic/mythological creatures on the island were more sinister in nature and existed in Doom's Doorway to the underworld, which the Amazons swore to keep trapped and never to escape. In the waters surrounding Themyscira also lived Naiads and in the forests Dryads who played most of their days away, occasionally with the Amazons. In 1999 when writer Eric Luke took over the Wonder Woman comic book he had several lost mythical creatures from around the globe take asylum on Themyscira.

He and his wife, Bo Peep, eventually managed to escape to Fabletown and the mundane world, where they settled in on the Farm. Peter is a flutist, and the holder to the magic flute Frost, and he is also in Boy Blue's band. In addition to his main appearance in Peter and Max, he also appears in several issues of the Fables comic: In Fables 91 (chapter five of the Witches story arc), Peter and his wife can be seen among the Fables standing in the background when the dryads are enjoying the falling snow. He can be seen playing his flute alongside another member of the band while the Fables are partying in Fables #100.

Dryas is a genus of perennial cushion-forming evergreen dwarf shrubs in the family Rosaceae, native to the arctic and alpine regions of Europe, Asia and North America. The genus is named after the dryads, the tree nymphs of ancient Greek mythology. The classification of Dryas within the Rosaceae has been unclear.. The genus was formerly placed in the subfamily Rosoideae, but is now placed in subfamily Dryadoideae.. The species are superficially similar to Geum (with which they share the common name avens), Potentilla and Fragaria (strawberry). However, Dryas are distinct in having flowers with eight petals (rarely seven or up to ten), instead of the five petals found in most other genera in the Rosaceae.

Other inhabitants of the Narnian world based on known mythological or folkloric creatures include Boggles, Centaurs, Cruels, Dragons, Dryads, Earthmen (the Narnian version of gnomes), Efreets, Ettins, Fauns, Giants, Ghouls, Griffins, Hags, Hamadryads, Horrors, Incubi, Maenads, Merpeople, Minotaurs, Monopods, Naiads, Ogres, Orknies (perhaps from Old English orcneas "walking dead"),Schakel, Peter J. The Way into Narnia: A Reader's Guide, p. 128. Winged Horses, People of the Toadstools, Phoenix, Satyrs, Sea Peoples (a version of the merpeople), Sea serpents, Sylvans, Spectres, Sprites, Star People, Unicorns, Werewolves, Wooses, and Wraiths. These are a free mix of creatures from Greco-Roman sources and others from native British tradition.Briggs, K. M. The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature, p.

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Song, "I have slept beneath the water" - The Lady of the Lake (Lemmens-Sherrington) ::The Lady of the Lake describes awakening after centuries, to the merry, golden present, and rising to meet the queen. :4. "Let Fauns the cymbal ring" - Quartet (Lemmens-Sherrington, Palmer, Cummings, and Santley) and male chorus of sylvans ::The Fauns, Sylvans and Dryads welcome Oriana (a nickname for Elizabeth) with music and tribute, and celebrate her bravery and beauty. :5. Slow Dance with a Burthen (Women's Chorus) :6. Song, "I am a ruler on the sea" - Arion (Santley) ::The Greek poet Arion sings of Britain's mastery of the sea and praises the mariners who guard her glorious crown.

Calvert graduated into The Royal Ballet in 2007. In 2009, while she was still an Artist, she made her principal role debut, as The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty. She was subsequently named First Artist in 2010, Soloist in 2012 and First Soloist in 2016. She has since other principal roles such as the Queen of Dryads and Mercedes in Don Quixote, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Queen of the Willis in Giselle, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons, Sugar Plum Fairy and Rose Fairy in The Nutcracker and Mitzi Caspar in Mayerling She has created roles in works including Aeternum and Charlotte Edmonds’s dance film The Indifferent Beak (Deloitte Ignite 14).

The bulk of Swann's fantasy fits into a rough chronology that begins in ancient Egypt around 2500 BC and chronicles the steady decline of magic and mythological races such as dryads, centaurs, satyrs, selkies and minotaurs. The coming of more "advanced" civilisations constantly threatens to destroy their pre- industrial world, and they must continually seek refuge wherever they can. They see the advent of Christianity as a major tragedy; the Christians regard magic and mythological beings as evil and seek to destroy the surviving creatures, although some manage to survive and preserve some of their old ways through medieval times down to the late 19th Century and perhaps even the 20th. An undercurrent of sexuality runs through all of these stories.

When music is heard in the distance announcing the arrival of Leda, with her attendants, he drives away the nymphs, dryads, and faun, and conceals himself among the flowers. Leda prepares for her morning bath, expressing the hope that she will again meet the beautiful swan – Zeus in disguise – who often meets her at this spot. She and her women undress and plunge into the river; the swan appears, gliding towards Leda. The attendants raise their cloaks to hide from view the embrace with which the queen welcomes the bird; but Pierrot has seen all, and, furious with jealousy, he strikes the swan with his stick, inflicting a mortal wound, from which the bird soon dies, singing before he expires.

Since his love was not "true"—he did not want to die for love—he was actually punished by the gods, first by giving him only the apparition of his former wife in the underworld, and then by being killed by women. In Ovid's account, however, Eurydice's death by a snake bite is incurred while she was dancing with naiads on her wedding day. Virgil wrote in his poem that Dryads wept from Epirus and Hebrus up to the land of the Getae (north east Danube valley) and even describes him wandering into Hyperborea and Tanais (ancient Greek city in the Don river delta) due to his grief. The story of Eurydice may actually be a late addition to the Orpheus myths.

The party continue to Vo Mimbre, the Arendish capital, where Garion reveals the plot to kill Korodullin, without naming its local conspirators, and Mandorallen challenges Nachak to a duel, which Hettar terminates by killing Nachak. The party travels to Tolnedra, to talk to the Emperor Ran Borune in the city of Tol Honeth, and are nearly captured by a group of mercenaries for the Queen of neighboring Nyissa. At Tol Honeth, Belgarath and Polgara urge the Emperor to rid Tolnedra of the invading 'Murgos'; but Ran Borune refuses. Upon leaving the capital, the group acquire an ineffectually-disguised Princess Ce'Nedra (Ran Borune's daughter), and enter the Wood of the Dryads, hoping to cross into Nyissa ahead of their opponent Zedar.

In 2015, Rebecca Wilmshurst, BBC production executive for Radio Drama, wrote an article to celebrate the seventy-five years' existence of the company. In the course of this, she boasted that "If your radio script requires actors to be mice, ants, naiads or dryads, men morphing into hares, maggots in a fisherman’s sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes – look no further than to the Radio Drama Company." The cast of the company changes every six months. Auditions are held for the Carleton Hobbs Bursary, in memory of the veteran actor Carleton Hobbs (1898–1978), primarily for students graduating from drama courses, with the aim of recruiting between four and six new members of the Radio Drama Company every year.

Kretova was born in Oryol, Russia. She was a graduate of the Moscow State Choreographic Academy in 2002 and after it joined the Kremlin Ballet Theater where she plays such roles as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote, Marie in the Nutcracker, and Emmy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer. She also played a double role of both Princesses Florina and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty and also played roles of main characters such as Giselle in the play of the same name and Esmeralda in La Esmeralda. In 2011 Don Quixote came back to the stage and there she played a role of Queen of Dryads and the same year replayed her previous roles from the Nutcracker and Giselle.

In 1944, in order to honour her husband, Constance established his Constance Fund, which she administered until her death in 1951. The fund was dedicated to "the encouragement of Ideal Sculpture and its setting for Parks and Public Places in conjunction with the settings and surroundings"; Goetze had stipulated that its Committee consist of three sculptors, an architect, a horticulturalist and "a few laymen". In 1950 the Triton and Dryads fountain, designed by William McMillan in 1936, was at last installed in Queen Mary's Gardens with an inscription commemorating Goetze as a "Painter[,] Lover of the Arts and Benefactor of this Park". In 1951 the Constance Fund commissioned the Diana in the Trees Fountain in Green Park and its final commission, in 1963, was the Joy of Life fountain in Hyde Park.

She also in accordance with his will, setup the Constance Fund, which he had originally intended to be established in order to commemorate her memory through the gifts of sculpture to parks in London and which she now administered to commemorate his memory. Under her direction, the Constance Fund commissioned, the Triton and Dryads fountain, designed by William McMillan in 1936, was at last installed in Queen Mary's Gardens in 1950 with an inscription commemorating Goetze as a "Painter[,] Lover of the Arts and Benefactor of this Park". It also Constance Fund commissioned the Diana in the Trees Fountain in Green Park, which was completed after her death and was presented to the Minister of Works by her niece Countess May Cippico. Its final commission, in 1963, was the Joy of Life fountain by T. B. Huxley-Jones in Hyde Park (renamed in 2001/2 as the Four Winds Fountain).

Alexander Gorsky presented his revival of the ballet for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on , a production that he then staged for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, premiering . For his productions of 1900 and 1902 Gorsky interpolated new dances. For his 1900 production, he added new dances to music by Anton Simon – a variation for the Queen of the Dryads, and a dance for her mistresses, as well as an additional Spanish dance for the last scene. When he staged the production in St. Petersburg in 1902, the composer Riccardo Drigo composed two new variations for Mathilde Kschessinskaya, who danced Kitri/Dulcinea – the famous Variation of Kitri with the fan for the ballet's final pas de deux, and the Variation of Kitri as Dulcinea for the scene of Don Quixote's dream (these variations are still retained in modern productions and are often erroneously credited to Minkus).

Tissaia finally realizes her mistake and, along with Triss Merigold's help, takes Geralt to safety, before committing suicide. Soon after the events at Thanedd Island, Dandelion finds Geralt recuperating in the forest of Brokilon, under the care of the dryads, and fills him in on recent events: Aedirn, Rivia, and Lyria fell quickly to the Nilfgaardian invaders, while King Foltest of Temeria made a hasty pact with Emhyr and preserved his kingdom; the elven mage Francesca Findabair was made the client queen of Dol Blathanna, but on the condition that she allow the Scoia'tael to remain under Emhyr's control. In Nilfgaard, a false Ciri is presented to Emhyr and he publicly announces his plans to marry her and legitimize his rule of Cintra, but after the official presentation, Emhyr orders his secret forces to find the real Ciri. Ciri awakes in the Korath desert and barely manages to stay alive, thanks to the help of a unicorn.

Triton and Dryads, a fountain in Regent's Park commissioned by Goetze and eventually dedicated as a memorial to him In 1932 Goetze and Constance donated the eastern gates for the gardens of the Inner Circle of Regent's Park, in 1938 they donated the southern or jubilee gates to be installed for the re-opening of the gardens as Queen Mary's Gardens in 1939. Following the death of his friend, sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert, in 1934 Goetze assisted the National Art Collections Fund in acquiring Gilbert's collection and dispersing it to various public collections. Goetze and Constance also donated two bronze sculptures by Albert Hodge, The Lost Bow (1910) and A Mighty Hunter (1913), which were probably commissioned for Grove House. Following his death in 1939, Constance made a number of donations to various museums including: a 15th-century manuscript of Pseudo-Augustine, now in the Henry Davis Collection at the British Library and a series of religious sculptures to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

In their provocative and frank display of the > beauties and delights of the courtesan's art, these reliefs mark the > culmination of a tendency already noted in the carvings at Sanchi and > Bharhut. Not only is there a thoroughly convincing suggestion of solidity of > form, but the articulation of body and limbs is achieved with complete > mastery... The question may well be asked: what is the purpose of such > frankly sensuous figures on a Buddhist monument? The answer is that possibly > they represent a pointed reference on the exterior of the sacred enclosure > to the transitory life of pleasure, outside the peace of the world of > Buddha; again, it may be that, like the mithunas of later Hindu art, they > represent an allegory of the desirability of the soul's union with the > divine in the forms of these beautiful dryads that so actively suggest the > desirability of sexual union.Rowland, 157-159 The Yashis have varied attitudes, variations on the tribhanga (three bend) pose that was to become extremely popular in Indian art.

5: "In it flourish tall trees: pears and pomegranates and apples full of fruit, also sweet figs and bounteous olives...Here too a fertile vineyard has been planted...Beyond the last row of trees, well laid garden plots have been arranged, blooming all the year with flowers. And there are two springs; one leads through the garden while the other dives beneath the threshold of the great court to gush out beside the stately palace; from it the citizens draw their water" Poetic descriptions of the Greek landscape and flora are well known from early times - the tale of Narcissus, Daphne's transformation into a lauren, oaks inhabited by dryads and streams with nymphs, and Persephone eating pomegranate seeds, but it's not until the Hellenistic era that gardeners write treatises on their work call kepourika. No such gardens were known to Homer's contemporaries, as far as archaeologists can discern, any more than palaces like Alcinous', whose very doors were of bronze. The gardens of Greek myth were untended gardens,Noted by Thacker, p. 9.