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The petrifying thud of artillery landing late into the night.

It's going to be moving, petrifying, critically acclaimed and altogether fucking glorious.

I was the concertmaster for his concert, which was petrifying and thrilling.

"It was the most petrifying experiences," Pharoah, 28, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.

In this sense, the petrifying effects associated with the Gorgon's gaze gain clearer significance.

"Obviously, I'm Scary because I am truly petrifying," Twardowski said sarcastically, pointing to her afro curls.

Trusting that feeling of the unknown is petrifying, but it means you're on your way to something great.

Much of the giant squid's following is based on its place in mythic lore as a petrifying monster.

It is petrifying that the deliberate deceptions and wild ego of one man can so mislead a nation.

"Given we're in the low foothills of this virus, this is f---ing petrifying," the senior director said.

Jones learned later that the production had created masks that froze the character's faces in a petrifying rictus grin.

But in reality, this is just a temporary stepping-stone in my life; it is petrifying, but damn exhilarating.

It's Paris Fashion Week, so it's clear why Kim's there ... but still hanging over her is the petrifying heist.

Mr Sessions, moreover, helps to set an official tone which, in Memphis—home to perhaps 30,000 undocumented immigrants—is petrifying.

There is one class of ordeal to which, although it would be petrifying to live through, the reader becomes swiftly numb.

Universal Studios has announced its latest Halloween Horror Nights maze, and this time, they're taking a page from Jordan Peele's petrifying playbook.

It is very petrifying that there is not one sitting member of Congress that will come out against this on my side.

And although it feels petrifying right now, there are a few things you can do to make the process a bit less frightening.

And that is precisely why The Prodigy, a thoroughly petrifying new psychological horror film from Orion Pictures, will haunt you to your very core.

Trauma is never far away, often appearing in the most innocent disguises, like a simple swimming lesson that becomes a petrifying test of manliness.

A Johnson majority would be petrifying because his lying, bullying and dodging mean Britain has no clue what his real plans for Brexit are.

Sure, little Oaklyn could grow up with a petrifying anxiety about scalpel-wielding, green-haired comic book villains, but who doesn't suffer that fear really?

Our homes are our sanctums, a bastion of safety and comfort from the outside world, and the thought of cyber intrusions into them is petrifying.

The entire petrifying scene was filmed by safari-goers in the car behind them, who repeatedly shout "What the f—" as they watch the impending attack.

After using the petrifying gaze to defeat his enemies in battle, Perseus gives the Gorgon's head to Athena, who displays it on the aegis of her shield.

Whereas outliving his dead mother inspires Sedaris to consider his own mortality, the thought of exacerbating the silence that overtakes each conversation with his father is petrifying.

Take the Roman mosaic floor on display at the Getty, where Medusa's wild, snaky locks are depicted as wind-blown curls, her petrifying gaze an elegantly turned head.

But the president proved no match when it comes to the devil, with 51 percent of those surveyed saying Satan was more petrifying, compared to Trump's 85033 percent.

The act of being out and about with this fragile little baby was petrifying, so I shut out the real world and stayed in the safety bubble of my home.

Think-tank fellows stoop together in the corridors, sharing rumours of petrifying transition appointments, alongside hopes that old party grandees can control the president-elect's long list of worst instincts.

The really petrifying thing we — everyone who are in situations similar to mine — are facing right now is that we have no idea what is going to happen next. None.

What's truly petrifying: The very items we purchase to have a frightfully fun holiday can help maim (or even kill) us and our loved ones if not used with caution.

Drip, drip, drip went her daughter's tears on the old woman's heart, each drop calcifying a little the fibers till at the end of four days the petrifying process was complete.

Hanging side by side, her large images of gunmen, rigidly rendered, are petrifying: the barrels of their weapons align with their eyes and aim directly at the viewer with fierce intention.

You hear the words chemo and radiation and you're staring down that dark road and I want other people to know that it's petrifying but you need to keep a little light.

Trump's ability to completely embody and effectively project the petrifying fear young white men feel about the erosion of their privilege is a large part of the reason he is president today.

From the sickeningly brutal, to the psychologically petrifying, right down to eye-watering moments of profound sadness, here are a few of the video game moments I can't seem to shake from my broken mind.

"In this case what is so petrifying and worrisome, for the United States and the world, is that in this presidential election there was a strategy" to open "the Pandora's box of hatred," adds Perez.

Imbued with art and literature, teenaged Cézanne threw himself into painting and signed a first intimidating "Self-Portrait" (1864), where he looks like a menacing monster with bloodshot eyes and a tight-lipped and petrifying visage.

"A petrifying reality that cannot come to pass""There are as many as 80,000 homeless New Yorkers and in shelters ... That's a lot of people," Catherine Trapani, the Executive Director of Homeless Services United, told Insider.

Andre Breton, the group's self-appointed leader, wrote in his novel Nadja that the market at Saint-Ouen was "an almost forbidden world of sudden parallels" and "petrifying coincidences," where unexpected encounters with dreamlike objects lurked around every corner.

Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — Now, stacked on the Trump tower of petrifying things we have to worry about — war with Iran, war with China, war with Mexico, war with Islam, war with koala bears — there is yet another looming disaster.

Some of the scum's been wiped off his work here in comparison to his earlier material, but that only serves to make the score more petrifying—as if after all these years you're finally seeing the evil in full focus.

His impression of President Barack Obama in the presence of the man himself was "the most petrifying experience," Pharoah, 28, told PEOPLE recently – although at the event Weinstein recalled that he "killed" his Presidential performance, impressing everyone in the room.

Despite the analysis and petrifying POV, Rush Limbaugh still appears to have a much bigger issue on his hands: As in what exactly to do with all of those millions he still continues to earn on his way to alleged irrelevance.

For the 1.7 million working mothers of children under one year old, entrusting their child to a stranger for eight hours every weekday is a petrifying but necessary evil: The United States and Papua New Guinea are the only two countries in the world that do not guarantee paid maternity leave.

As dangerous as the last leg of the migrant journey to Britain often is, those petrifying hours in a trailer are sometimes only a sliver of months if not years of harsh treatment — first at the hands of organized trafficking gangs, and then under imperious bosses at nail salons and cannabis factories in Britain.

For horror fans, HBO's addition this month of The Conjuring (also available starting June 1) and its 2016 sequel is great news — and not only because The Conjuring 2 introduces a petrifying nun straight out of the Babadook goth-chic toolkit who's getting her own Nunoff next year, like The Conjuring's demon doll Annabelle before her.

All of the new haunts feature new storytelling from a host of contributors, including Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward, Penny Arcade writer Jerry Holkins, Cards Against Humanity's Max Temkin and Eli Halpern, The Doubleclicks' Angela Webber, and many more—meaning there's suddenly a whole new swath of petrifying tales of corruption and supernatural horror to be told in board game's most infamous household.

Lorelei also possesses a petrifying kiss, transforming victims into a granite statue.

In Serbian myth, Vy, a giant with a petrifying gaze similar to the Celtic Balor.

However, this real effect cannot produce the fast and totally petrifying effects told by popular tales.

Kenosha has a number of golf courses.Kenosha County, WI Kenosha County golf courses Petrifying Springs Golf Course was named the "No. 1 Sporty Course in Wisconsin".D'Amato, Gary.

EchinoBlog. Retrieved 2012-01-21. The Greek mythological hero Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medusa; when Perseus later dropped Medusa's head on the beach, her petrifying glance turned the nearby seaweed to stone, creating the first coral.

A petrifying well is a well which gives objects a stone-like appearance. If an object is placed into such a well and left there for a period of months or years, the object acquires a stony exterior.

Blue Snowman relies upon a "telescopic snow ray" to create petrifying blizzards and a "defroster ray" for reverse effects. She uses a variety of gadgets, including a hat that produces blue snow and a smoking pipe that projects icicles.

Although designated a Senate bill, much of the political force behind the legislation came from Democratic Representative George Molinaro of Kenosha. In April 1966 a site-selection committee chose a parcel of rolling farmland and woods near Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha County as the site of the new southeastern University of Wisconsin campus, from around half a dozen alternative options. On April 21, 1966, UW-Madison history professor Irvin Wyllie chose the name University of Wisconsin–Parkside for the campus, writing that: "No place can go anywhere tagged the Petrifying Springs Campus, or snide variations thereof: Putrifying Springs, Stupefying Springs". In May the same year, Wyllie was named the first chancellor by UW President Fred Harvey Harrington.

In addition to the limestone pavement, major landscape types, providing the habitats for the flora and fauna, include limestone heath, dry calcareous grasslands, calcareous (calcifying or petrifying) springs, the intermittent water bodies called turloughs, bogs, cladium fens, lakes, wet grasslands, scrub and light woodland, and neutral, and farm-improved, grasslands.

The petrifying image of Medusa makes an instantly recognizable feature in popular culture. Medusa has been featured in several works of fiction, including video games, movies, cartoons and books. In particular, the designer Versace's symbol is reflected through the Medusa-head symbol. It was chosen because she represents beauty, art, and philosophy.

Shaktimaan uses a metal tray to turn his glance back to him, petrifying the Stone-man. He then changes switches appearances with Stone-man and deceives Kapala into attacking him. Kapala is hurt badly and Shaktimaan uses this opportunity to destroy the magic skull of Kapala. The stone-man disappears when the skull is destroyed.

I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. pp. 73-74. (e-book) A third version present in The Arabian Nights is "The Tale of the Sultan and his sons and the Enchanting Bird", a fragmentary version that focuses on the quest for the bird with petrifying powers.Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard. The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. Vol.

When the door slowly opens, Patricia escapes with the chest with Amber & Appie in pursuit. Giant rocks begin to fall petrifying both Mick and Joyce as Patricia gives the chest to Rohan. Amber discovers that it was a trap seeing her skin freezing solid before she is petrified herself. She steals the chest and reunites with the rest before going to a swamp, much to her disgust.

It scared me personally, though, because the idea of going through something like that is petrifying. They were the most challenging scenes I've ever done." On filming the delivery scene itself, she explained; "There was a prosthetic baby, but the director didn't show it to me until filming started so I'd get the full impact. It looked so real and I just broke down.

Many of the major villains and monsters are awnsheghlien. Examples include the Gorgon (stone- skinned with a petrifying gaze, perhaps the strongest creature in Cerilia), the Sphinx (an insane half-cat lover of riddles), the Spider (once a goblin- king who fought at Deismaar), and the Vampire (once a young hero who killed a blood abomination named the Sinister and thus became corrupted himself).

58-year-old retired history professor Lyman Ward is the narrator of the book. He is a divorced amputee with a debilitating disease that is slowly "petrifying"Stegner (1971), 188 him. The text of Angle of Repose is transcribed tapes of Ward dictating what is to become the biography of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward. The dictation begins on April 12, 1970, and continues through the summer.

Other areas have more mixed woodland. Within the reserve there are numerous springs and areas with water seepage, with the petrifying springs being one of the most important habitats listed in the EU Habitats Directive. Knocksink Wood has the most diverse woodland invertebrate fauna recorded in Ireland, with a number of animals specific to wet woodland that are of threatened status in the EU.

But her reputation and stories about her recounted that she did make such prophecy.Mother Shipton's Prophecies (Mann, 1989) One of the most notable editions of her prophecies was published in 1684. It gave her birthplace as Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a cave now known as Mother Shipton's Cave. Along with the Petrifying Well and associated parkland, this property is now operated privately as a visitor attraction.

Orlassk, the master of stone, is said to have made medusas, basilisks and other petrifying creatures. Orlassk's citadel is said to be a giant gargoyle formed from living rock that prowls the depths of Khyber. Kyrzin is a prince of slime and ooze who lives beneath the Shadow Marches. Kyrzin has created numerous types of oozes, including parasitic oozes that may control their host or burst from their host's flesh.

6 which Persian polymath Avicenna modified into the theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus). This was built upon in the 14th century by Albert of Saxony, and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 16th century. Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder wrote of "tongue stones", which he called glossopetra. These were fossil shark teeth, thought by some classical cultures to look like the tongues of people or snakes.

A Methuselah, whose father was apparently a human, Balthasar lives in a castle together with his brothers. He is known to hate unnecessary violence, possessing an artistic nature, and he is a great tactician. Nicknamed Basilisk, Balthasar has the ability to generate a petrifying venom from his palm which can crystallize the living target. He can also petrify his own bodily fluids and fire them in needle-like projectiles.

Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin praised the novel's craft, but faulted its espousal of "the petrifying process that military academies put children through" and the "us-against-the-world" attitude it engendered."Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1955, p.93 Anthony Boucher received it favorably, commending its "vigorous storytelling [and] excellent detailing of the background of a submarine civilization.""Recommended Reading," F&SF;, September 1955, p.89.

They detour to the home of Horace Slughorn, former Potions teacher at Hogwarts, and Harry unwittingly helps persuade Slughorn to teach. On the Hogwarts Express, Harry suspects Draco has become a Death Eater. Using his invisibility cloak, Harry eavesdrops on Draco in his carriage, where he brags to his friends about a mission Voldemort has assigned him. Draco catches Harry in the process, petrifying him and breaking his nose.

Appie hears a noise and sees a crocodile-like creature approaching them before she and Amber falls into the swamp, but both of them are rescued by Fabian & Jeroen. They soon reach the castle but Rohan bursts in out of nowhere before chasing Jeroen and petrifying him. In the castle, they encounter beautiful clothes and food. Appie takes a jam cookie and Amber a necklace, but they both become statues like the rest.

In 1698 warm springs were discovered and a bath house was built. As the waters became better known, access was improved by the building of the bridge into Old Matlock and in 1783, the opening of a new entrance at the south of the valley. Princess Victoria of Kent's royal visit in 1832 confirmed Matlock as a society venue of the time. Victoria's party visited a pair of museums and a petrifying well.

In some stories, Perseus received the Cap of Invisibility (along with the Winged Sandals) from Athena when he went to slay the Gorgon Medusa, which helped him escape her sisters. In other myths, however, Perseus obtained these items from the Stygian nymphs. The Cap of Invisibility was not used to avoid the Gorgons' petrifying gazes, but rather to escape from the immortal Sthenno and Euryale later on after he had decapitated Medusa.

The ancient Chinese considered them to be dragon bones and documented them as such. During the Middle Ages, fossils were discussed by Persian naturalist Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in Europe) in The Book of Healing (1027), which proposed a theory of petrifying fluids that Albert of Saxony would elaborate on in the 14th century. The Chinese naturalist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) would propose a theory of climate change based on evidence from petrified bamboo.

Mother Shipton's caveMother Shipton's Cave (or "Old Mother Shipton's Cave") is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well, also known as a dropping well. The latter is the oldest tourist attraction to charge a fee in England, and has been operated since 1630. The water of the well is so rich in sulphate and carbonate that artefacts may be put in the well to be "petrified" (encrusted) as a tourist attraction.

Food and water is brought regularly, and he settles to the task of preparing his body for "the perfection of death", which when it comes he meets with a "peculiar joy". Removing Olivero's body from the grotto the attendants encounter another group carrying Siloēn, who died at the same time as Olivero. The pair are laid together in a petrifying trough, to "become part of the same crystal harmony", as is customary when any of the Green people die.

Kell Well Kell Well is a spring that discharges from a point just below the top of The Cliff escarpment, west of Walcot. However, due to Danish influence the name is not uncommon for springs in eastern England, keld being a Danish word for spring pool. The waters of the spring were once believed to have had petrifying properties, but if this were ever the case those properties are now lost. However, the spring is chalybeate.

On temple roofs, maenads and satyrs were often alternated. The frightening features of the Gorgon, with its petrifying eyes and sharp teeth was also a popular motif to ward off evil. A Roman example from the Augustan period features the butting heads of two billy goats. It may have had special significance in imperial Rome since the constellation Capricorn was adopted by the emperor Augustus as his own lucky star sign and appeared on coins and legionary standards.

Nattier, Perseus petrifying Phineus In Book V of Ovid's mock-epic Metamorphoses, Athis is a young demigod from India, son of Limnaee, a nymph of the Ganges. He was follower of Phineus. During a quarrel between Perseus and Phineus, Perseus killed Athis, who was preparing to shoot his bow, with a log that had been smoldering in the middle of the altar. The Assyrian Lycabas, wept for his fallen comrade, and attempted to avenge him, shooting an arrow at Perseus from Athis's bow.

After failing to dispose of Bung and Potter with a snake, the Oddbods are dispatched to deal with them. Bung and Potter are reunited with Slobotham and manage to return Doris to human form, but discover that Emily has been turned into a mannequin. A battle follows, in which Albert (in Mr. Hyde form) defeats the Oddbods. Dr. Watt menaces them with petrifying liquid but is threatened by the re-animated mummy of Rubbatiti, which has come alive following a lightning strike.

He also loves to cook and is quite a skilled chef, but he is too self-conscious to showcase his culinary ability to anyone. Deuce inherited his mother's ability to turn people into stone, though he has been able to control the effect so that it lasts for only about twenty- four hours. His petrifying stare does not work on gargoyles which he learns by bumping into Rochelle Goyle. He takes off his sunglasses only when he talks to her.

Other scholars, including Avicenna, thought fossils were produced in the rock by "petrifying virtue" acting on "seeds" of plants and animals. In 1580 Bernard Palissy speculated that fossils had formed in lakes, and natural historians subsequently disputed the alternatives. Robert Hooke made empirical investigations, and doubted that the numbers of fossil shells or depth of shell beds could have formed in the one year of Noah's Flood. In 1616 Nicolas Steno showed how chemical processes changed organic remains into stone fossils.

Within the eclectic and multifaceted body of work produced by Raymond Hains, similarities with the surrealist aesthetic and particularly with principles expressed by André Breton are to be found. André Breton described the world as “sudden parallels, petrifying coincidences (…) and the kind of association of ideas they provoke - a way of transforming a gossamer into a spider web” in the book Nadja published in 1962. In 2001, the Centre Georges Pompidou devoted an important retrospective exhibition to Raymond Hains in Paris: La tentative (The Endeavour).

During the "Spider-Geddon" storyline, Arnim Zola and some Hydra agents locate Superior Octopus' hideout in order to get him to return to Hydra and help rebuild it. When Superior Octopus states that he upheld his bargain with Hydra, Arnim Zola states that one "leaves" Hydra when he dies. Upon taking down the Hydra agents, Superior Octopus is then attacked by a bio-duplicate of Gorgon that Arnim Zola created. When Gorgon's blindfold falls off, Superior Octopus is turned to stone by his petrifying stare.

Keelhilla, Slieve Carron, sometimes referred to as the Slieve Carran Nature Reserve, was legally protected as a national nature reserve by the Irish government in 1986. The site forms a part of the wider Burren limestone landscape located on the north-east edge of the Burren plateau, with a karst topography. The sites includes karst pavement, scrub grassland, and woodland. Some of the features of the reserve which fall under European priority habitats are the orchid bearing calcareous grassland, limestone pavement, and petrifying springs.

Todde started his career as a surgeon and ophthalmologist in Cagliari. He participated in the Sardinian Literary Spring and influence of 19th Century Sardinia. Published in 2002, Lo stalo delle anime, his first novel, is a historical thriller set in 1893 which features the doctor Efisio Marini. Marini was a historical character who really existed and invented a method of petrifying bodies. Marini was a recurrence in Todde's works, as he was featured in Paura e carne, E quale amor non cambia, and L’estremo delle cose.

Carlin Maggie This natural stone outcrop is known as Carlin Maggie and has the look of something imported from Easter Island, but it is natural. It is said to be a witch turned to stone by the Devil after she got on his nerves (carline is an old Scots word for 'witch'). The Devil threw a lightning bolt which had the effect of petrifying her. It is a rock pillar estimated to be high, on the Western slope of Bishop Hill, overlooking Loch Leven.

The hammer is now an exhibit in Baugh's Creation Evidence Museum, which sells replicas of it to visitors. Other observers have noted that the hammer is stylistically consistent with typical American tools manufactured in the region in the late 1800s. Its design is consistent with a miner's hammer. One possible explanation for the rock containing the artifact is that the highly soluble minerals in the ancient limestone may have formed a concretion around the object, via a common process (like that of a petrifying well) which often creates similar encrustations around fossils and other nuclei.

The Upper Reservoir, Bohernabreena waterworks Emerging from Cruagh Wood, the way follows the R116 to the junction with the R115 known as Viewing Point. From Viewing Point, it briefly follows the R115 before entering Featherbed Forest, emerging onto the Piperstown Road in front of Piperstown Hill. The Way follows a series of minor roads, descending into the Glenasmole Valley, a slender gorge carved out by the River Dodder. The valley is a Special Area of Conservation containing three important habitats: petrifying springs, orchid-rich grassland and Molina meadow.

This illustration of an Indian elephant jaw and a mammoth jaw (top) is from Cuvier's 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants. Although paleontology became established around 1800, earlier thinkers had noticed aspects of the fossil record. The ancient Greek philosopher Xenophanes (570–480 BCE) concluded from fossil sea shells that some areas of land were once under water. During the Middle Ages the Persian naturalist Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in Europe, discussed fossils and proposed a theory of petrifying fluids on which Albert of Saxony elaborated in the 14th century.

If an object is placed into such a well and left there for a period of weeks or months the object acquires a stony exterior. At one time this property was believed to be a result of magic or witchcraft, but it is an entirely natural phenomenon and due to a process of evaporation and deposition in waters with an unusually high mineral content. This process of petrifying is not to be confused with petrification wherein the constituent molecules of the original object are replaced (and not merely overlaid) with molecules of stone or mineral.

Jack spent the next few years as a traveler, shapeshifting on the three nights of the full moon into a savage werewolf form. He learned of the Darkhold from Nathan and Agatha Timly, who briefly kidnapped the Werewolf and met grisly ends. Befriending writer Buck Cowan, Jack sneaked into Blackgar's castle and stole the Darkhold, encountering Miles Blackgar and his daughter Marlene, whose petrifying power slew both Blackgars. After fighting off the deformed Cephalos' plot to drain his power to stabilize Cephalos' form, Jack had Father Ramon Joaquez translate the Darkhold.

The beast forms include a werewolf, a thunder weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger, or a golden werewolf. Each beast form grants its own abilities, such as the dragon's lightning bolts or the bear's petrifying breath. If the player fails to collect at least three Spirit Balls and cannot transform, Neff will appear regardless when enough time has elapsed in each level. In the original arcade game, the end credits include the revelation that the whole game actually depicted a staged film production and not a true battle between magical beings.

Wari after petrifying the creatures retired to the depths of the mountains. The Bolivian anthropologist, Milton Eyzaguirre, based on a 16th-century chronicle of Bartolomé de Álvarez commented that in the Andean region of Bolivia, a cult in honour of the dead, named cupay, was practised. Over the centuries the cupay derived in supay, the figure of the devil in the modern Diablada. In pre-Columbian times the dead season started in November with the crop season, the conquerors made efforts to coincide the Andean calendar with their festivities, such as the carnival.

To make robbing the Money Bin easier, the Beagle Boys acquire anti-inertia and neutra-friction beam pistols from the foolish cabbage professor (The one who invented the petrifying beam in The Mysterious Stone Ray). Next, they march to the Money Bin while evading all obstacles using the beam pistols, including a barbed-wire fence, dogs, portcullis, automatically triggered machine gun nests, and cannonballs. They advance in that way as far as towards the strongroom. There, Scrooge snatches the neutra-friction pistol and fires it at his money, making it behave essentially as a liquid.

The spaces he created, such as: motel rooms, tropical forest, nightly stairway or enclosed bus depot, are surprising environments, charged and rich in details. Shani succeeds in surprising visitors each time in an artificial environment, full of beauty that is enveloped by a petrifying silence and feelings of threat and anxiety. The ambitious installation "Busses," which is currently on display at the Israel Museum, is one of the highlights of his work and a major achievement in Shani's consistent body of work.' Shani is a faculty member and senior lecturer at the Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

The Inquisitor foils the plot and follows the Viddasala into the Eluvian network to confront Solas, despite the Anchor growing increasingly out of control. After petrifying the Viddasala, Solas calms the Anchor to explain himself to the Inquisitor. He confesses to being Fen'Harel, who led a rebellion against the Evanuris after they became corrupt and abused their power. He created the Veil to seal away the Evanuris after they murdered Mythal, sundering the physical world and the Fade permanently, and in doing so dooming the civilization of the ancient elves to collapse due to its dependency on magic.

He is an expert hand-to-hand combatant and skilled marksman, with his signature weapon being a double-barreled shotgun. When revived by Kindred, Sin-Eater wielded a special gun that removed their powers and destroyed their sins. In addition, he can turn the sins into actual monsters, teleport, and absorb the powers of anyone he shoots. He has demonstrated making use of Overdrive's limited technopathy and vehicle alteration, Count Nefaria's ionic abilities, Grey Gargoyle's petrifying touch, Living Laser's laser projection, Whirlwind's rotation and wind-based abilities, Mister Negative's corruption touch, and Juggernaut's Cyttorak-based empowerment.

He had invented Herman Melville; he had lived in Japan; he wore plus fours in which he could have carried his entire library; he spoke with an accent of perfect clarity and force, but which apart from him was never heard on land or sea. He dramatized the whole of life which was wonderful for the teaching of literature and aesthetics but petrifying in personal relations. He could ask the eternal pedagogic question: "What do you mean, Mr. Doe, by 'interesting'?", and make it sound like an irrefutable accusation of incompetence; and yet he did not merely terrify, he taught.

"Balor himself may have one, two or three eyes, one of which is poisonous, incendiary, or otherwise malignant; he may have two eyes in front, one each in front and back, an extra eye in the middle of his forehead. Lugh always puts the evil eye out", as summarized by Mark Scowcroft. In O'Donovan's version of the folktale above, Balor has one eye in the middle of the forehead, and a deadly eye on the back of his head. It is described as both venomous, and issuing some sort of petrifying beam with powers like unto a basilisk.

Besides the Buzzard, he also fights "the twerpy crime lord Mr. Meek (who has a petrifying ray), the Rajah (who hypnotizes victims with the Burma Emerald), and the murderous gang leader the Tiger". Although Dan Richards and Paul Kirk never met in Golden Age stories, because they were published by different companies, they have been retconned in DC continuity as having met, and arguing over who should get the Manhunter name.All-Star Squadron #31 They resolved the dilemma by joining different teams: Dan Richards became a member of the Freedom Fighters, while Paul Kirk stayed as a member of the All-Star Squadron.

All of its living victims meet its gaze indirectly, either from a reflection or by seeing it through something else, and are only petrified rather than killed. Nick is the only one to look directly at the Basilisk, but he too is petrified since he is a ghost and cannot die again. Nick also protected Hufflepuff student Justin Finch-Fletchley from death after Justin saw the basilisk's eyes through Nick's transparent body, thus only petrifying him as well. The character appears again in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Harry has been looking for comfort upon Sirius' death, hoping he can see him later as a ghost.

Beholders are especially prominent in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, where they infiltrate and seek to control many sectors of society—many beholders are allied to the Zhentarim, some work with the Red Wizards of Thay, and a particularly powerful beholder, known as "The Evil Eye" or "The Xanathar" controls Skullport's influential Thieves Guild. ("The Xanathar" is the title of the thieves guild leader, passed from one to the next.) Beholders also compete to control the Underdark from where most of them originate, with their base of power in the City of the Eye Tyrants, Ootul. Known for shooting beams from their medusa-like eye tentacles and petrifying would-be adventurers.

In Ultraman Saga, his popularity as Ultraman Dyna was made public, so much that his stories and identity was published in the textbook. TPC Mars base were celebrating his 15 years of his sacrifice and during that same time he was transported into another world where Alien Bat kidnapped the Earth's citizens to empower his Hyper Zetton as part of his invasion. Asuka/Dyna sided with Team U, humanity's final line of defense but sacrificed himself by petrifying both him and Dyna to halt Cocoon Hyper Zetton's development. His ejected Reflasher was picked by an orphan Takeru, who used it to revive Dyna to assist Ultraman Cosmos and Zero against Zetton.

Karn is invigorated and strengthened greatly by the Elixir, but cannot break the chains fastened to him. Pleased at this sight, Sarchimus consumes the rest—and finds himself petrifying to chalk. Zarqa (who had been held in an energy-barrier set to Sarchimus' frequency) then releases Karn (and reveals to him the missing ingredient to be a component distilled from phuol venom—Karn was protected by residues of the venom from the stinging he had earlier received), who then releases Janchan. The three then find a map to Ardha and Phaolon—which they find are about 3,000 farasang (a unit of time misused by Laonese also for distance) away.

By the middle of the 4th century BCE, Aristotle was composing On the Origins of Animals. Both he and his follower/successor Theophrastus speculated that plastic forces within the earth had turned animals into fossils of stone. In the medieval Islamic world, Avicenna (979 to 1039 CE), in his The Book of Healing (1027), offered an explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused. Aristotle previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Avicenna modified into the theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on by Albert of Saxony in the 14th century and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 16th century.

The legend behind the importance of the city of Oruro as an ancient sacred place for the Urus tells the story of the chthonic deity Wari, which in the Uru language means soul (). He, after hearing that the Urus were worshiping Pachacamaj, represented by Inti, unleashed his revenge by sending plagues of ants, lizards, toads and snakes, animals considered sacred in the Uru mythology. But they were protected by the Ñusta who adopted the figure of a condor, defeating the creatures petrifying them and becoming sacred hills in the four cardinal points of the city of Oruro; these animals are also often represented in the traditional masks of the Diablada.

Hendrickse-Spendlove explained that Texas "opens her front door, sees Silas and thinks, 'This is it - my life is over', to see him standing there with no police restraint, knowing that he murdered her sister India, is absolutely petrifying". Silas tells Texas that he now intends to complete what he began. Hendrickse-Spendlove would not reveal whether Texas survives the ordeal but said that Texas is "never going to be safe again" regardless of the outcome. In August 2012, Laura-Jayne Tyler from Inside Soap confirmed that there were no current plans for Silas to return, but the door had been left open for him.

He asked them to join his party in a toast to the health of King George II, and to kneel in allegiance. He told his guides that he would have set fire to the townhouse and killed the assembled Indians if they refused. During his stay in Great Tellico, Cuming was impressed by the display of its chief Moytoy. He described the encounter in his journal (referring to his party in third person): > They arrived at great Telliquo in the Afternoon, saw the petrifying Cave, a > great many Enemies Scalps brought in and put upon Poles at the Warriors > Doors, made a Friend of the great Moytoy, and Jacob the Conjurer.

Whether this servant is another monster or in fact an extension of her power is unknown. She was the monster that scouted out the Monster Union members Midnight Hiyoko and Millionaire Beaver, although she may have found others as well. Like all monsters, her powers are difficult to gauge, and she has an unquestionably evil nature. She is referred to as Medusa by other monsters, which goes along with the fact that she is associated with snakes, can petrify others at will and lastly, when she removed her head it was likely referencing the legend of when Perseus decapitated Medusa in combat, and later used her head (or rather her petrifying eyes) as a weapon.

The petrified Snake Face is seen later in the Eternian prison. In the episode 40 comic "Captured," it is shown that Snake Men can recover from even mortal injuries when they are in total darkness, as both the stone Snake Face and the decapitated King Hiss were taken to Snake Mountain where Skeletor's minion Beast Man inadvertently allowed King Hiss to heal himself. This implies that Snake Face too would eventually have been restored to normal. In the Masters of the Universe Classics toyline, Snake Face gained his petrifying abilities from the Great Black Wizard with his abilities impressing King Hiss enough to recruit him into his army as part of the Snake Men's inner circle.

The Dowager Empress is informed of this prophecy from her astrologer, and sends several eunuchs to kill the infants shortly after their birth. Although their fathers are captured, a member of the "Society of Freedom", Shou Cow, rescues the babies and arranges to send them to France via an arrangement made with a Captain Tournier and his first mate Martin Garçon. Meanwhile, the Dowager Empress imprisons the biological fathers of Jules and Julie, a native of China and a blonde-haired, bearded British man, petrifying them into solid gold stone with the aid of her court magician Ho Cheng. Upon hearing that the Twins have survived, a pirate, Kung Lee, is sent to kill the twins.

Byrna Brilyant's scientist father died while working on his invention of "blue snow," a special form of precipitation that freezes everything it touches. This invention was intended to "serve humanity," although precisely how seems rather vague. Thinking to put her father's work to more profitable use, Byrna creates the masculine identity of the Snow Man and unleashes the petrifying power of blue snow upon the farming community of Fair Weather Valley, demanding each farmer's "life savings" in return for the chemical antidote that will free crops, livestock, and people from the snow's effects. The Blue Snow Man is discovered in "his" mountain sanctuary by Wonder Woman, who forces "him" to defrost the valley.

New attractions during the 1973 season included a go-cart track named Pappy Yokum's Positively Petrifying Putt-Mobiles, a scrambler called Joe Btfsplk's Impending Disaster Machine, a shooting gallery called Scraggs Feudin' Range, a black light maze, and a swinging bridge."'Self-Sufficiency' Is Key to Dogpatch Growth," Harrison Daily Times, December 5, 1973, p. 1. The Kissin' Rocks sculpture was also newly installed for the 1973 season. In 1974, more new attractions were added, including the thrill ride Hairless Joe's Kickapoo Barrel, an inflatable "bouncing bag," a replica Native American village, and craft shops where artisans demonstrated pottery making, leather working, and woodworking."Dogpatch USA Opens Saturday With New Rides, Attractions," Harrison Daily Times, May 1, 1974, p.1.

In Ancient Greece, Aristotle (384–322 BCE) observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches – he inferred that the fossils in rocks were formed by organisms, and he reasoned that the positions of land and sea had changed over long periods of time. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) concurred with Aristotle's interpretation that fossils represented the remains of ancient life. The 11th-century Persian polymath Avicenna (Ibn Sina, died 1037) and the 13th-century Dominican bishop Albertus Magnus (died 1280) extended Aristotle's explanation into a theory of a petrifying fluid. Avicenna also first proposed one of the principles underlying geologic time scales, the law of superposition of strata, while discussing the origins of mountains in The Book of Healing (1027).

Its protection concerns 84 precious bird species (including the honey buzzard, the peregrine falcon, the rock partridge, the eagle owl, the nightjar, the tawny pipit, the red-backed shrike, and the ortolan bunting) and the habitats, e.g. the natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco- Brometalia) —– with significant blossoming of orchids—the limestone pavements and the petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion), and the calcareous beech forests of Central Europe Cephalanthero-Fagion. Inside is another nature reserve, the Site of Community Importance "Sasso Malascarpa" (328 hectares), with 52 protected species, among which are the greater horseshoe bat, various kinds of backed shrike, and the rare white-clawed crayfish. A peculiar habitat of the reserve consists in the stone springs with travertine formation.

In role-playing games, metagaming is a term often used to describe players' use of assumed characteristics of the game. In particular, metagaming often refers to having an in-game character act on knowledge that the player has access to but the character should not. For example, tricking Medusa to stare at a mirror when the character has never heard of Medusa and would not be aware of her petrifying stare. For instance, a player might adjust his character's actions if the player has some foreknowledge of the long-term intentions of the gamemaster, or, more commonly, the gamemaster's tendency to have (or lack) mercy on players whose characters do things that would cause them to fail at their objectives.

Drawings of the Moon and the Pleiades from Hooke's Micrographia One of the observations in Micrographia was of fossil wood, the microscopic structure of which he compared to ordinary wood. This led him to conclude that fossilised objects like petrified wood and fossil shells, such as Ammonites, were the remains of living things that had been soaked in petrifying water laden with minerals. Hooke believed that such fossils provided reliable clues to the past history of life on Earth, and, despite the objections of contemporary naturalists like John Ray who found the concept of extinction theologically unacceptable, that in some cases they might represent species that had become extinct through some geological disaster. Charles Lyell wrote the following in his Principles of Geology (1832).

The supporters of this theory consider that the Uru mythology is reflected in the symbolism of the Diablada. The legend behind the importance of the city of Oruro as an ancient sacred place for the Urus tells the story of the chthonic deity Wari, which in the Uru language means soul (). He, after hearing that the Urus were worshiping Pachacamaj, represented by Inti, unleashed his revenge by sending plagues of ants, lizards, toads and snakes, animals considered sacred in the Uru mythology. But they were protected by the Ñusta who adopted the figure of a condor, defeating the creatures petrifying them and becoming sacred hills in the four cardinal points of the city of Oruro; these animals are also often represented in the traditional masks of the Diablada.

The two soon learn the Higashikata family are related to Kira by marriage, with Yasuho finding Yoshikage's hospitalized mother Holy Joestar-Kira, who suffers memory loss from an incurable disease. Meanwhile, Kyo Nijimura, Holy's daughter who works as a maid for the Higashikata household, reveals to Josuke that he is a composite of Yoshikage's missing body parts with that of another person, having undergone an equivalent exchange from being buried under the Wall Eyes. When Josuke later confronts Norisuke's reasons of taking him in, he learns that the Higashikata family need Yoshikage's memories to end a family curse that is gradually petrifying them. The solution is explained to be the Locacaca fruit, which cures a person of any ailment at the cost of losing an aspect of themselves in exchange.

Landing on a beach outside a beast-man village, the two meet Rapp, who asks them to help destroy a nearby tower that is emanating a dark energy and petrifying the land. Finding the tower to be controlled by the Garlyle Forces, the team meets with Milda, a beast-woman, inside and join her in destroying the source of the corruption, which turns out to be a plant-like creature known as "Gaia" being grown by Garlyle researchers under the orders of General Baal. After destroying the creature and taking a sample of its seeds, Justin is confronted by Leen who steals them back. Moving forward in search of Alent, the party meets a traveling merchant named Guido who leads them to his home town, where he acts as chieftain despite his young appearance, allowing them access to more ruins.

The Gaze of the Gorgon is a film-poem created in 1992 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines the politics of conflict in the 20th century using the Gorgon and her petrifying gaze as a metaphor for the actions of the elites during wars and other crises and the muted response and apathy these traumatic events generate among the masses seemingly petrified by modern Gorgons gazing at them from pediments constructed by the elites. The verse- documentary is aimed at describing the "unspeakable horrors and atrocities of the twentieth century" through the Medusa paradigm and it was broadcast on BBC-2 in October 1992. According to literary critics, Harrison's work acts as a mirror through which the audience can gaze at the horrors without being petrified. The video-poem has been described as the "right lyre for the twentieth century".

The narrator, Charles L., is an unremarkable cashier seemingly bereft of personality, a man condemned to live forever a larval existence. However, once he is confronted with the crushing stupidity and overwhelmingly hideousness of his fellow-beings (beginning with those of his wife and in- laws), he withdraws into his own inner world, into the realm of the imagination and dream, which Mirbeau saw as so important, and which established the author's affinity with his contemporary, Sigmund Freud. Alienated from others and from himself, Charles L. develops a capacity for pitiless observation, which allows him to detect all of society's absurd and ignominious features in their petrifying horror. Thereafter, he makes pity and revolt against a homicidal society « the bases of his moral life », as he testifies in his confession, which constitutes an instrument of revenge for his shabby, wretched life.Cf. Arnaud Vareille, « Les Mémoires de mon ami », in Dictionnaire Octave Mirbeau .

The book Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma mentions that Harrison points to the muted response of the Western world to the traumatic events during the Gulf war as an indication of the petrifying effect of Gorgon's gaze. According to the book, Harrison contends that the paralysing effect of the gaze of the Gorgon brings about ghettos, genocide and gulags. The book also mentions that during the Gulf war the [Gorgon] pediments have turned to steel and the eyes of the Gorgon are the tank wheels which make all of "their devotees rigid staring at them from her temple frieze". The book then compares Harrison's film to Primo Levi work The Drowned and the Saved where Levi makes mention of those who saw Gorgon and they were never able to return alive and calls them the "true witnesses" who could authentically testify as to the horrors of abuse as compared to those who suffered but at least were able to survive the extermination camps and whom he considers not true witnesses.

Rudwick The Meaning of Fossils p. 39 In 1027, the Persian naturalist, Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in Europe), proposed an explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused in The Book of Healing. He modified an idea of Aristotle's, which explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations. Ibn Sina modified this into the theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on by Albert of Saxony in the 14th century and was accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 16th century.Rudwick The Meaning of Fossils p. 24 Shen Kuo () (1031–1095) of the Song Dynasty used marine fossils found in the Taihang Mountains to infer the existence of geological processes such as geomorphology and the shifting of seashores over time.Shen Kuo,Mengxi Bitan (梦溪笔谈; Dream Pool Essays) (1088) Using his observation of preserved petrified bamboos found underground in Yan'an, Shanbei region, Shaanxi province, he argued for a theory of gradual climate change, since Shaanxi was part of a dry climate zone that did not support a habitat for the growth of bamboos.Needham, Volume 3, p. 614.