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Fig. 26: The Pomegranate Tree.

One day, beautiful Side takes her little girl with her and goes
to the shore of the Melas Stream (Manavgat), one of her favorite
places. Even today, there are lush surroundings on the banks
of the Manavgat. The beautiful girl along with the nymphs play
games, sing songs and have fun making a wreath of flowers.
The beautiful Side, who dances and gathers flowers with the
nymphs, plucks a delicate branch from a tree with beautiful
flowers. Whatever happens, happens at that moment. A drop
of blood begins to drip from the tree where the beautiful Side
has cut off the branch. Upon this situation, Side is very afraid
and sad, because this tree is actually a water nymph and has
transformed herself into a tree to protect herself from danger.
With this fear, it was good to escape from there at that moment,
but Side suddenly realizes that she cannot move, her feet are
stuck to the ground.
So much so that leaves suddenly sprout from the fingertips
of the beautiful girl, whose feet are now almost integrated into
the ground. Side, now a tree nymph, seeing the return of the
nymphs was very sorry at this situation and now with tears rol-

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