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Bible Encyclopedias
Gorgons

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Three sisters, Medusa, Euryale, and Stheino, with hissing serpents on their heads instead of hair, of whom Medusa, the only one that was mortal, had the power of turning into stone any one who looked on her. See Perseus .

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gorgons'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​g/gorgons.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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