The oracular trees of the Sun and Moon, somewhere on the confines of India, appear in all the fabulous histories of Alexander from the Pseudo-Callisthenes downwards. Thus Alexander is made to tell the story "Then came some of the townspeople and said, 'We have to show thee something passing strange, O King, and worth thy visiting; for we can show thee trees that talk with human speech.' So they led me to a certain park, in the midst of which were the Sun and Moon, and round about them a guard of priests of the Sun and Moon. And there stood the two trees of which they had spoken, like unto cypress trees; and round about them were trees like the myrobolans of Egypt, and with similar fruit. And I addressed the two trees that were in the midst of the park, the one which was male in the masculine gender, and the one that was female in the feminine gender. And the name of the male tree was the Sun, and of the female tree the Moon, names which were in that language Muthu and Emaüsae. And the stems were clothed with the skins of animals; the male tree with the skins of he-beasts, and the female tree with the skins of she-beasts.... And at the setting of the Sun a voice, speaking in the Indian tongue, came forth from the (Sun) tree; and I ordered the Indians who were with me to interpret it. But they were afraid and would not." Maundeville informs us precisely where the trees are--"A fifteen journeys in lengthe, goyinge be the deserts of the tother side of the Ryvere Beumare," if one could only tell where that is. A mediæval chronicler also tells us that Ogerus, the Dane (_temp. Caroli Magni_), conquered all the parts beyond sea from Hierusalem to the Trees of the Sun. In the old Italian romance also of _Guerino detto il Meschino_, still a chap book in south Italy, the hero visits the Trees of the Sun and Moon.