The Homeric Hymn to Apollo acknowledges that Apollo's gift of prophecy first came to him from three bee maidens, usually identified with the Thriae.

Daphnis was also the name of a member of the group of Prophetic sisters, known as the Thriae.

** Kleodora, one of the Thriae

The Thriae was a trinity of pre-Hellenic Aegean bee goddesses.

Words for the nymphs of the Greek and Roman mythos were translated by Anglo-Saxon scholars with ælf and variants on it.

The nymphs of the stream where Hylas was collecting were attracted to his good looks, and pulled him into the stream.

Charybdis and Scylla were once nymphs.

Other nymphs, always in the shape of young maidens, were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally the huntress Artemis.

The Greek nymphs were spirits invariably bound to places, not unlike the Latin genius loci, and the difficulty of transferring their cult may be seen in the complicated myth that brought Arethusa to Sicily.

The mythologies of classicizing Roman poets were unlikely to have affected the rites and cult of individual nymphs venerated by country people in the springs and clefts of Latium.

The ancient Greek belief in nymphs survived in many parts of the country into the early years of the twentieth century, when they were usually known as " nereids ".

It seems that Demeter and Kore, were the first from a series of daemons with the same nature, just as Artemis was the first of the nymphs.

According to Horace Walpole, the members ' " practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed ; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits.

Another theory is that the fairies were originally worshiped as minor goddesses, such as nymphs or tree spirits, but with the coming of Christianity, they lived on, in a dwindled state of power, in folk belief.

In Greek mythology, the Meliae were nymphs of the ash, perhaps specifically of the Manna Ash ( Fraxinus ornus ), as dryads were nymphs of the oak.

According to Ovid's pretty myth-making in the same Metamorphoses episode, the Echinades Islands were once five nymphs.

In Greek mythology, the Meliae or Meliai () were nymphs of the ash tree, whose name they shared.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.

Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs.

Hermes is represented in the act of carrying the child Dionysus to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing.

In Greek mythology, the Crinaeae ( Κρηναῖαι ) were a type of Naiad nymphs associated with fountains or wells.

Ducking inside, he found that three rifles were stacked in a corner.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

Greg took the formation wide around three A-26 attack bombers that were headed north over the Gulf.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

There were three years of this strange warfare ; ;

The casualties in the Army of the Cumberland were 22,807, while for all three armies they were 37,081.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

there were two or three colored maids employed there.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

There were times now, like this, when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

The dosages in the three levels of the vertical profile were: Af

The cells were washed three times with saline, anti-human serum was added, the cells were resuspended, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min and examined for agglutination.