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Pronunciation: [mədjˈuːsə] (IPA)

Medusa is a mythical creature with snakes for hair and a gaze that could turn people to stone. Synonyms for Medusa include Gorgon, Siren, and Harpy. A Gorgon is a female creature with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone. A Siren is a mythical creature that lured sailors to their death with their enchanting song. A Harpy is a half-bird, half-woman creature that was known to carry people away to their death. While these synonyms have slightly different characteristics, they all share an element of danger and the ability to invoke fear in those who encounter them.
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The judge nodded to him, and he continued, somewhat vehemently: I now understand the legend of medusa.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
Conspicuous among other varieties one sees the blue medusa, twelve inches and more in diameter.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
We have been shewn that they were a long time in Egypt; and we read of a Chrusaor in those parts, who is said to have arisen from the blood of medusa.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant

Famous quotes with Medusa

  • Koskaan yritä katsoa taaksepäin, ja koskaan katse menneisyyteen. joskus ohi voi olla kuin medusa, hirvittävän gorgon pelottava ihmisen kasvot ja ottaa myrkyllisiä käärmeitä paikka hiuksiaan. Varokaa tuijottaa suoraan medusa silmiin, sillä se voi kääntyä sivustakatsoja kiveen. Aiemmin tekee täsmälleen sama - se jäätyy te kivi kylmä, hidastaa ja lopettamalla kaikki tekosi, tavoitteita ja toiveita ..... miksi menneisyys on verrattavissa medusa täällä. odotan tänään, juuri tällä hetkellä, esillä, että toivottaa sinut iloisesti, kuin elämän matkaa jatkuu yl
    Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
  • Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!
    Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Medicine, guarded too by preliminary impediments, and frightful medusa-heads of quackery, which deter many generous souls from entering, is of the half-articulate professions, and does not much invite the ardent kinds of ambition. The intellect required for medicine might be wholly human, and indeed should by all rules be,—the profession of the Human Healer being radically a sacred one and connected with the highest priesthoods, or rather being itself the outcome and acme of all priesthoods, and divinest conquests of intellect here below. As will appear one day, when men take off their old monastic and ecclesiastic spectacles, and look with eyes again! In essence the Physician's task is always heroic, eminently human: but in practice most unluckily at present we find it too become in good part beaverish,—yielding a money-result alone. And what of it is not beaverish,—does not that too go mainly to ingenious talking, publishing of yourself, ingratiating of yourself; a partly human exercise or waste of intellect, and, alas, a partly vulpine ditto;—making the once sacred... Human Healer, more impossible for us than ever!
    Thomas Carlyle

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