Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Isn't there a magic talking tree in one of the Grimm fairy tales? Like Cinderella, maybe?
Snow White has a talking mirror which is sometimes shown with an ornate wooden frame.
That's the only Grimm tale I remember similar to the tree.
Although, come to think of it, I seem to remember a Russian film version where a tree was the source of magic for Cinderella's dresses and things, which were in acorns.
Hmmm.
The Wizard of Oz has the talking faced, apple throwing trees.
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis have trees, Tolkiens have faces and talk, that move, walk and fight.
Pocohantas by Disney had a magical tree with a talking face.
To name a few magical trees in stories.
DC's Amethyst stories on Gemworld/Sorcerers Planet, which we know is where Mysa and Blok are now, had faces like that tree's on all sorts of surfaces.
The faces never looked very happy, like this one, either.