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#171711 11/28/07 05:22 PM
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To "petrify" is both to terrify and to turn to stone. Is there any connection here to the Medusa?

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she does both,

but I take it you are looking for a connection that is more word related than that.

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Quote:
she does both,


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If you go with gorgon instead of Medusa, there are connections. Gorgon and Medusa were sort of mixed up as civilizations overran and merged.


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