However, authors like Herrick changed the herdsmen to nymphs, maidens, and flowers. Today, girls sometimes gather toiletries in honor of the seven maidens. They appear every fourteen years for those maidens. In Balinese dance the theme of celestial maidens often occurred. The tree fell in love with four beautiful maidens. He is greeted by a bevy of attractive maidens. On stormy nights, the crying of the imprisoned maidens can still be heard. He was rewarded with three fair maidens per year. Others include swan maidens and the Japanese "tennin". In early modern England, a wreath custom existed for the funerals of "young maidens". Names are provided for these nine maidens. According to Herodotus, auctions of maidens were held annually. Alternate names (kennings) for the female German Nixe are Rhine maidens () and Lorelei. They dance together ("Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens"). They were looking closely into part of an area in Japan that educates several "Maidens".