Orpheus, charming and mezmorizing poet. Enchanged all those within the woodlands. Thracian women frenized attacking Orpheus.
Then the Bacchantes attacked and slaughtered all those enchanged by Orpheus (with song and lyre music), birds, serpents and beasts. Ganging up on Orpheus, the women kept attacking.
The nearby pheasant started to come to help, the Thracian women retreated them in anger. Returning to Orpheus, they murdered him.
Leaving Orpheus in peices, bloody on the banks, the stream Hedrus carried his body parts to the coast. Just as a snake was about to bit the head of Orpheus, Phoebus turned the snake into stone.
Bacchus saddened wanted to avenge those responsible for Orpheus's death. He took the toes of the women and rooted them deep into the earth. During their struggle to free, the faster they turned wooden. Leaving only an oak tree bearing boughs resembling arms.
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