Talking tree

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Tree on the Island of Waqwaq. Golconda, early 17th-century. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin

Talking trees are a form of sapient trees in mythologies and stories.

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Ben Bryne initially[ when? ] said that in Greek mythology, all the trees in the Dodona (northwestern Greece, Epirus) grove (the forest beside the sanctuary of Zeus) became endowed with the gift of prophecy, and the oaks not only spoke and delivered oracles while in a living state, but when built into the ship Argo the wood spoke and warned of approaching calamities. [1]

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  1. Cultus Arborum 1890
  2. Image:Iskandar/Alexander and the talking tree. Circa 1330-1340. The Smithsonian`s Museums of Asian Art Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Plants of Life, Plants of Death". Frederick J. Simoons. 1998
  4. The History of Alexander's Battles: Historia de Preliis, the J1 Version. Leo (Archipresbyter) 1992 ISSN 0316-0874 ISBN   9780888442840 Page 169 of 200 pages
  5. Summarized-Sahih-Al-Bukhari. page 16 of 1097
  6. Viviane et Merlin
  7. Ashton, J. W.; Briggs, K. M. (April 1968). "The Fairies in Tradition and Literature". The Journal of American Folklore. 81 (320): 164. doi:10.2307/537668. ISSN   0021-8715. JSTOR   537668.
  8. Yaqui leader Anselmo Valencia story of the talking tree
  9. Yaqui Myths and Legends. University of Arizona Press, 1959 - Social Science - 180 pages. Pages 18, 26, 27
  10. Théodore Rousseau description at Encyclopedia of World Biography