Messapian shepherds

A shepherd frightened them, and then proceeded to mock them by mimicking their dance with loutish leaps, crude shouts and rustic insults.

He would not stop until they turned him into a wild olive tree, whose bitter berries still bear his sourness to this day.

The shepherds danced in a crude and artless manner, while the movements of the nymphs were full of grace and beauty.

Naturally the nymphs were proclaimed victors, and after winning they revealed their true identities to the hubristic shepherds.

As punishment for their hubris, they turned them all into trees, which still groan and lament their fate to this day.