Talking tree

Talking tree

Alexander the Great (Iskandar) at the Talking Tree from a Persian manuscript of the Shahnamae.
Grouping Legendary creature
Similar creatures Dryad
Country Worldwide
Region Worldwide

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

According to 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, when built into the ship Argo the wood spoke and warned of approaching calamities.[1]

The rustling of the leaves on an Oak tree was regarded as the voice of Zeus.[2]

Examples

Tree with what resembles a face and mouth.

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