Subject: spirits trapped in trees [was Re: TWIN PEAKS IS BACK!!]
From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer)
Date: 1991-02-28, 10:04
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <6696@idunno.Princeton.EDU> news@idunno.Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) writes:
>from Spenser's the Fairy Queen:
> >From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob S Weinstein)
> >Path: phoenix!jacobw
> >
> >Then groning deepe, "Nor damned Ghost," quoth he.
> > "Nor guilefull sprite to thee these wordes doth speake,
> > But once a man...now a tree...
> > A cruell witch... hath thus transformed."
> >(I've left out a lot, but you get the idea.)
> > The footnote to my edition says, "The motif of a man imprisoned
> >in a tree derives from Virgil (Aeneid 3.27-42) and is used by Ariosto
> >(Orlando Furiouso 6.26-53).

But Loki was turned into a tree also.

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