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  2. Petrifaction in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia

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    Petrification is associated with the legends of Medusa and the Svartálfar 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 tales such as The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, The Water of Life and The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, as well as many troll tales.

  3. Category:Recurring elements in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Recurrent elements in fairy tales (31 C, 21 P) D. Deal with the Devil (4 C, 57 P) ... Petrifaction in mythology and fiction; Poison dress; R. Rash promise; S. Shoe ...

  4. The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    "The Malachite Casket" (Russian: Малахитовая шкатулка, romanized: Malahitovaja shkatulka), also known as "The Malachite Box", [1] is a folk tale (the so-called skaz) of the Ural region collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov.

  5. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  6. Petrifaction - Wikipedia

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    In geology, petrifaction or petrification (from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) 'rock, stone') is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.

  7. he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.

  8. The Patchwork Girl of Oz - Wikipedia

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    They also meet another of Pipt's creations, Bungle, an extremely vain talking cat made of glass. The Powder of Life successfully animates the patchwork girl, but an accident causes both Pipt's wife and Unc Nunkie to be turned to stone. Dr. Pipt tells Ojo that he must obtain five ingredients to make a compound to counteract the petrifaction spell.

  9. Koshchei - Wikipedia

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    In one tale he has eyelids so heavy he requires servants to lift them [19] (cf. the Celtic Balor or Ysbaddaden, or Serbian Vy). The parallel female figure, Baba Yaga , as a rule does not appear in the same tale with Koschei, though exceptions exists where both appear together as a married couple, or as siblings. [ 15 ]