ndeed,
in Grimm's Fairy Tales, the hero always goes into the forest. It is not
itself enchanted, but it contains enchantments and, being outside
normal human experience, acts as a place of transformation. The forest
is often filled with magical animals, plants, maybe even magical rocks
and creeks. Often there will be elves, dwarves, and other mythical
creatures that may or may not have been made up by the author on the
spot, and trees that talk or with branches that will push people off
their horses, and thorny bushes which will open to let people in but
close and leave people stuck inside, and other plants that move, or turn
into animals at night, or the like. Perhaps there will even be creeks
which will turn unwary travelers into frogs if drunk from, and maybe
sorcerers live somewhere in the depths of the forest...
-Wikipedia 'Enchanted Forest'
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