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Definition
Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone if they looked at her
- Medusa yelled, her snake-hair hissing and spitting.Chapter 11 (71% in)
Medusa = Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone if they looked at her
- How did Medusa die in the myth?Chapter 11 (63% in)
- Something told me that in the myth Medusa had been asleep when she was attacked by my namesake, Perseus.Chapter 11 (63% in)
- The Gray-Eyed One did this to me, Percy," Medusa said, and she didn't sound anything like a monster.Chapter 11 (64% in)
- Medusa snarled.Chapter 11 (65% in)
- Medusa asked.Chapter 11 (66% in)
- Knowing Grover, I was sure he'd miss Medusa and nail me.Chapter 11 (69% in)
- Then Medusa roared with rage.Chapter 11 (70% in)
- Medusa is a menace.Chapter 11 (72% in)
- I followed the hissing and spitting sounds of Medusa's hair.Chapter 11 (77% in)
- I kept my eyes locked on the gazing ball so I would only glimpse Medusa's reflection, not the real thing.Chapter 11 (77% in)
- Medusa grabbed the stick and pulled him off course.Chapter 11 (78% in)
- Medusa was about to lunge at him when I yelled, "Hey!"Chapter 11 (79% in)
- Medusa cackled.Chapter 11 (81% in)
- She was holding Medusa's black veil.Chapter 11 (84% in)
- We found some old plastic grocery bags behind the snack counter and double-wrapped Medusa's head.Chapter 11 (88% in)
- Medusa was Poseidon's girlfriend.Chapter 11 (89% in)
- Medusa and her two sisters who had helped her get into the temple, they became the three gorgons.Chapter 11 (90% in)
- That's why Medusa wanted to slice me up, but she wanted to preserve you as a nice statue.Chapter 11 (90% in)
- Oh, so now it's my fault we met Medusa.Chapter 11 (91% in)
- What had Medusa said?Chapter 11 (94% in)
- I searched the back of the warehouse until I found Medusa's office.Chapter 11 (95% in)
- I went back to the picnic table, packed up Medusa's head, and filled out a delivery slip: The Gods Mount Olympus 600th Floor, Empire State Building New York, NY With best wishes, PERCY JACKSON "They're not going to like that," Grover warned.Chapter 11 (98% in)
- The Furies and Medusa had provided enough excitement for one day.Chapter 12 (4% in)
- But back at Medusa's, when you were searching her office?Chapter 12 (35% in)
- But as I was saying, back at Medusa's, Annabeth and I agreed there's something strange going on with this quest.Chapter 12 (42% in)
- I thought about what Medusa had said: I was being used by the gods.Chapter 12 (51% in)
- That's why you mailed Medusa's head to Olympus.Chapter 12 (57% in)
- I fished out my last bit of change and passed Grover a quarter, which left me two nickels and one drachma from Medusa's place.Chapter 15 (4% in)
- Standing here and there like frozen party guests were Medusa's garden statues— petrified children, satyrs, and centaurs-all smiling grotesquely.Chapter 19 (39% in)
- I remembered Grover dive-bombing Medusa in the statue garden, and Annabeth saving us from Cerberus; we'd survived Hephaestus's Waterland ride, the St. Louis Arch, the Lotus Casino.Chapter 19 (86% in)
There are no more uses of "Medusa" in The Lightning Thief.
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