Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 11 - Dryad

Jul 21, 200913 min read

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Published: Jul 21, 2009

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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 11 - Dryad

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This week's creature feature is:  Dryad.

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad:

Dryads are tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root *derew(o)- 'tree' or 'wood'. Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general.
Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well.
Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. In the poetry of Donald Davidson they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet Sylvia Plath uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad", and "On the Plethora of Dryads".

Now, for the features!  Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:

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The fae realms: Dryad by Fairy-of-the-Woods

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Poseable Dryad mostly done by elvenelysium

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