Talking trees - Definition and Overview

Talking Trees are a form of sentient vegetable life common to many mythologies and stories, most famously the Ents in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth stories.

Some of the more well known talking trees:

• The Greek Talking Elm – Philostratus spoke about two philosophers arguing beneath an Elm Tree in Ethiopia which spoke up to add to the conversation.

• The Indian Tree of the Sun and the Moon - Told the future. Two parts of the tree trunk spoke depending the time of day the question was asked, where in the day the tree spoke as a male and at night it spoke as a female. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo are said to have visited this tree.

• In Ireland a tree may help you look for leprechaun's gold, although it normally doesn't actually know where the gold is.

External links

• Encyclopedia of Mythical Trees and Dieties (http://treetotem.com/mythcontents.htm)