Not much is known about the treant. All but being derived from the many myths concerning talking trees.
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The Greek Talking Elm: Philostratus spoke about two philosophers arguing beneath an elm tree in Ethiopia which spoke up to add to the conversation.
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The Indian Tree of the Sun and the Moon: Told the future. Two parts of the tree trunk spoke depending the time of day the question was asked; in the daytime the tree spoke as a male and at night it spoke as a female. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo are said to have visited this tree.
- Oracular Trees are sometimes attributed with the ability to speak to certain individuals, especially those gifted in divination. In particular, Druids were said to be able to consult Oak trees for divinatory purposes, as were the Streghe with Rowan trees. To what extent these trees could "talk" varies from story to story.
- In Ireland a tree may help you look for a leprechaun's gold, although it normally doesn't actually know where the gold is.
- The sentient trees in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz grab Dorothy and her friends when she picks an apple off of one of them
information from Wikipedia.com
