It was full of baby Hamadryads.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding
My friend killed all the Hamadryads on the spot, and gave the boys some coppers, and we went on.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding
Their lives are attached, like those of the Hamadryads, to the trees, and if any one causes by friction the inner bark to loosen, a Wood-woman dies."
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson