InGreek mythology, two virginOechalides (Ancient Greek:Οἰχαλίδες,romanized: Oikhalides,lit. 'Oechalian women') were transformed into trees by the nymphs when they revealed the fate of a disappeared priestess. They dwelled inOechalia, a town inancient Thessaly.

AfterDryope marriedAndraemon and gave birth toApollo's sonAmphissus, she and her husband erected a temple to Apollo, where Dryope served as a priestess. One day the nymphs took Dryope with them and left a poplar tree in her place. Two virgin women of the town told the rest that the nymphs had seized Dryope; the nymphs in anger turned them both into fir trees.^[a] This was supposedly why women were not allowed in the foot-race in honour of Apollo at Oechalia.^[2][3][4]

• Cerambus
• Sisyphus
• Clytie

• Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Celoria, Francis (1992).The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis: A Translation with a Commentary.Routledge.ISBN 0-415-06896-7.
• Forbes Irving, Paul M. C. (1990).Metamorphosis in Greek Myths.Clarendon Press.ISBN 0-19-814730-9.

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