Question 3 3/27 Question 4 Why did past societies tell mythological stories where the main character is a tree? Use an example when answering this question. Forests play a very prominent role in many folktales and legends. In these dark and mysterious places, most of heroes will lost way in the forest. Usually, the forests means the unknown challenge and stumble on hidden secrets. Some of the old age magic of forests lies in the ideas that people have had about trees. Trees are significant in many of the mythologies and religions. In some stories, trees have been given very deep and powerful meaning. Human values codifier in mythology to protect forests which are important for their survival. Trees symbolized & represented resources …show more content…
It is a strangest folk tales ever told in Thailand. There is a food called Nariphon,rees of Life and Knowledge. Providers of shade and bearers of fruit, trees have long been associated with life and fertility. Evergreen trees, which remain green all year, became symbols of undying life. Decidous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter and produce new ones in the spring, symbolized renewal, rebirth after death. As the story describe this kind of fruit is about 20 centimeters long.[4] This character is women who is the wife of a princess was exiling in the Himvanti forest, she comes across tress growing a very strange fruit which is miniature woman. These tress are trying to protect woman to across the forest, but for man which will be very dangerous. If a man across the forest who plucks a Nariphon, or fruit maiden and have intercourse with her. This man will be very sick, whatever he has any ability, he will lost all of his power. The third story from Hungary. A shepherd man who snuck into the king’s garden. He saw a really huge tree and decided to climb it. As he climbed it further, as he saw more magic things. Until he climbed to the top of the tree, he feels that he is in the