“Petrified” redirects here. For other uses, see Petrified (disambiguation).
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Petrified wood
For a list of sites of major collections of petrified materials, see Petrified wood.
Folklore
Petrifaction is also a common theme in folklore and mythology, and is associated with the legends of Medusa the Gorgon, the basilisk, and the cockatrice, among others. In fairy tales, characters who fail in a quest may be turned to stone until they are rescued by the successful hero, as in The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body or The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.In Cornish folklore, petrifaction stories are used to explain the origin of prehistoric megalithic monuments such as stone circles and monoliths. For example, the name of the Merry Maidens stone circle, and the nearby Pipers monoliths, comes from an associated myth about a party of young women who danced on poles through Saturday evening and into Sunday morning. For their sins the nineteen maidens were turned to stone, as were the two pipers accompanying them. Several other Cornish stone circles have similar themes in their names ( The Nine Maidens of Boskednan, the Tregeseal Dancing Stones), and there are variations such as The Hurlers on Bodmin Moor - turned to stone for playing the Cornish game of hurling on a Sunday[1]. Several isolated standing stones have names associating them with pipers or fiddlers.
Figuratively, the word can also refer to a state of paralysis resulting from fear.
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Some videos of women being petrified, in series or animes. Petrified can mean the following:
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- Petrified (film) is an unreleased film.
- Petrified (song) is a song by Fort Minor.
- Petrifaction is the process in which organic material becomes mineralized and preserved as a pretrified fossil such as Petrified wood.
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Organic matter (or organic material) is matter that has come from a recently living organism; is capable of decay, or the product of decay; or is composed of organic compounds.
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Balanced Rock stands in Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, CO]] A rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids. The Earth's lithosphere is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
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FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone", literally "wood turned into stone") is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the
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Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone", literally "wood turned into stone") is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the
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Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group.
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The word mythology (from the Greek μύθολογία mythologÃa, from μυθολογείν mythologein
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Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, "guardian, protectress"[1]) was a monstrous chthonic female character; gazing upon her could turn onlookers to stone.
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In Greek mythology, the Gorgon (plural: Gorgons) (Greek: Γοργών or Γοργώ Gorgon/Gorgo
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basilisk (from the Greek βασιλίσκος basiliskos, a little king, in Latin Regulus) is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power of causing death by a single glance.
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A cockatrice is a legendary creature, resembling a large rooster with a lizard-like tail, "an ornament in the drama andPlease [ edit this article], according to the fiction guidelines, to meet Wikipedia's . (talk, )
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fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events.
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The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.
George MacDonald retold it as "The Giant's Heart" in Adela Cathcart.
A version of the tale also appears in A Book of Giants by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
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George MacDonald retold it as "The Giant's Heart" in Adela Cathcart.
A version of the tale also appears in A Book of Giants by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
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The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales.[1] Joseph Jacobs included it in European Folk and Fairy Tales.
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Cornwall
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Motto: Onen hag oll
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Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
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Motto: Onen hag oll
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Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region South West England
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Bodmin Moor (Cornish: Goen Bren) is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, UK, 208 km² in size, dating from the Carboniferous period of geological history.
The name "Bodmin Moor" is relatively recent, being an Ordnance Survey invention of 1813.
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The name "Bodmin Moor" is relatively recent, being an Ordnance Survey invention of 1813.
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Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Paralysis often includes loss of feeling in the affected area.
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Fear is an emotional response to impending danger, that is tied to anxiety. Behavioral theorists, like Watson and Ekman, have both suggested that fear, along with a few other basic emotions (e.g., joy and anger), is a trait innate to most higher functioning organisms.
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