Nymph

A nymph is a kind of female nature entity/spirit in Greek mythology. They are often companions of Greek gods and goddesses. Nymphs can be divided into different kinds, such as:

• Dryads (trees)
• Naiads (fresh water)
• Oreads (mountains)
• the Okeanids, the daughters of Okeanos, and the Nereids, the daughters of Nereus (seas)
• the Pleiades (stars)

Aura, a wind nymph

A 19th Century French School painting tentatively identified as "Hylas and a Nymph" -the encounter of one male and one female suggests the mythological story of the nymph Salmacis seducing the youth Hermaphroditus

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