History Main / OurNymphsAreDifferent

* Dryads are a type of DemiHuman in ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima''. They have two horns that can be used in powerful healing potions. The horns are often poached with the dryad being sold into slavery. We only see one called Shirobe who can transform into a "Tree Dragon", lengthening her horns and growing wooden dragon-like wings.

See also NatureSpirit. For the [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant other type]] of "nymph", see ReallyGetsAround.

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura: The spirit form of the Wood Card resembles a dryad.

* ''Literature/Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' has a Maenad called Callisto. She can cause madness and lust in people, she has CompleteImmortality and is stronger than a vampire. She can also turn he thanks I to claws that can poison your blood if she scratches you.

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Pinison Pol Perlia from ''[[LightNovel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' is a dryad. They have wood-like skin and leaves for hair. They get weaker the further they move from their tree but the tree can be moved as Pimison had her's moved to Nazarick.

* ''ComicBook/JLAALeagueOfOne features two Nympths called Zoe and Athlea, a Nereid and Dryad respectively, who live around Themyscira and shown to have been ComicBook/WonderWoman's childhood friends growing up. Both are depicted as in the forms of little girls (Zoe all blue and Athlea all green) who have powers associated with their respective domains.

OurElvesAreBetter and OurFairiesAreDifferent are {{Sister Trope}}s.

* The MonsterOfTheWeek in the ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' episode "[[Recap/RosarioToVampireS2E5CurryAndAVampire Curry and a Vampire]]" is Ms. Apsara, Yokai Academy's Home Ec. teacher. [[ADogNamedDog She is a literal Apsara]] (a water nymph of Hindu/Buddhist mythology) with a particular obsession with traditional curry. When Kokoa [[KickTheDog ruins one of her dishes out of spite]], Apsara turns her into a yellow-skinned zombie obsessed with curry before deciding to do it with the rest of the school.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Dryads are among the {{Nature Spirit}}s native to the enchanted forest of Athel Loren. They take the form of beautiful women dressed in minimal garments, but when faced with an enemy -- and they have a very generous view of what counts as an enemy -- they take on their true forms as monstrous, vicious woody humanoids and tear their foes limb from limb.

** One of the helpful [=NPCs=] that can move into your houses is the Dryad, who can tell you how much corruption, crimson, and shallow has consumed the world, along with selling you items.

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* In ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', Hercules meets Philoctetes as he is peeping on a group of nymphs lounging by a river. When his cover is blown, Phil is quick to try and catch one, only for them to turn into a pile of flowers and a tree.

** Oceanids, contrary to what some would assume with their name, were the nymphs of both fresh and salt water, and sources of water. They numbered three thousand and were the daughters of the titans Oceanus and Tethys, and sisters of the three thousand river gods the two titans had also begat. Styx, the nymph/goddess of the Underworld river that bares her name, was the oldest of them.

** Individual nymphs include Amphitrite, a nereid and Poseidon's wife; Echo, who was cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat what others said and eventually faded away to only a disembodied voice; Melinoe;, an underworld nymph and bringer of nightmares (though usually she considered a full fledged goddess in her own right); and Metis, an Oceanid and Athena's mother. There's also a running theme of nymphs being transformed into plants after misadventures involving the gods -- Daphne[[note]]meaning "laurel" in Greek[[/note]], for instance, was a naiad who was pursued by an amorous Apollo, prayed to her river god father for escape and was transformed in to a laurel tree; the naiad Minthe tried to seduce Hades and was turned into the first mint plant by a furious Persephone; the dryad Syrinx met a similar fate to Daphne's, being transformed into a river reed by her sisters to escape Pan; the oread Pytis[[note]]"pine"[[/note]] was transformed into a pine tree under the same circumstances.

* "The Hardwood Pile", a short story by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp: In upstate New York, Aceria Jones is secretly the spirit of the tree whose lumber was used to make the floor of her workplace. Although she's a [[InsistentTerminology sphendamniad (maple spirit), not a dryad (oak spirit)]], her green hair (which changes to red in the fall) found its way into the Dryad entry of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' ''Monstrous Compendium''.

* "The Hardwood Pile", a short story by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp. In upstate New York, Aceria Jones is secretly the spirit of the tree whose lumber was used to make the floor of her workplace. Although she's a [[InsistentTerminology sphendamniad (maple spirit), not a dryad (oak spirit)]], her green hair (which changes to red in the fall) found its way into the Dryad entry of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Monsterous Compendium.

* "The Hardwood Pile", a short story by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp. In upstate New York, Aceria Jones is secretly the spirit of the tree whose lumber was used to make the floor of her workplace. Although she's a [[InsistentTerminology sphendamniad (maple spirit), not a dryad (oak spirit)]], her green hair and naming convention [[note]]the Norway maple is ''Acer platanoides''[[/note]] found their way into the Dryad entry of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Monster Manual.

** Dryads likewise resemble beautiful elven women. They are bonded to individual trees -- oak trees, specifically -- and will die if they spend too much time away from them or if the tree is cut down. They can meld with and teleport between trees, and serve as protectors of forested lands. Their hair and skin change color with the seasons -- they both turn red and white in the fall and winter, respectively; in the spring and summer, their skin turns tan and their hair green. Since all dryads are female, they rely on other species for reproduction -- generally, a dryad will have children with either a magically enthralled human or elf, in which case the child will always be a dryad, or with a [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyr]], in which case there's an even chance of the child being either a dryad girl or a satyr boy. A young dryad will live with her mother until she reaches adulthood, at which point she will seek a tree of her own to bond to.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Marston stories Nymphs are the all female residents of the [[{{Lunarians}} lunar forest]] who are both ruled by Artemis and worship her.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Marston stories Nymphs are the all female ladies of the [[{{Lunarians}} lunar forest]] who are both ruled by Artemis and worship her.

* ''Series/The Magicians'' has an episode featuring a dryad who is an ambassador for a forest of talking trees. This Dryad is a man and is in fact quite sexist. He considers it an insult that two females (one of which was the High Queen) would come to negotiate instead of the High King.