Petrified wood

In geology, petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material is converted into stone or a similar substance without decaying. Geology (from Greek γη gê, "earth" and λόγος Logos, "speech" lit Organic matter (or organic material) is Matter that has come from a once-living Organism; is capable of In Geology, rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of Minerals and/or Mineraloids The Earth's outer solid layer the ‘ Lithosphere It is approximately synonymous with fossilization. FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for Telecommunications programs under the DOS Operating system. Petrified wood is the most well known result of this process. Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone" literally "wood turned into stone" is a type of Fossil: it

For a list of sites of major collections of petrified materials, see Petrified wood. Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone" literally "wood turned into stone" is a type of Fossil: it

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. History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" In Greek mythology, Medusa ( Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa "guardian protectress" was a monstrous Chthonic female character gazing upon In Greek mythology, a gorgon ( Greek: γοργώ or γοργών transl In European bestiaries and Legends a basilisk ('bæzɪlɪsk from the Greek βασιλίσκος basilískos, "little king" A cockatrice is a Legendary creature, resembling a large rooster with a lizard-like tail "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans quot Laurence 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. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body is a Norwegian Fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. The Dancing Water the Singing Apple and the Speaking Bird is an Italian Fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales

In Cornish folklore, petrifaction stories are used to explain the origin of prehistoric megalithic monuments such as stone circles and monoliths. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar A stone circle is an ancient monument Such a monument is not always precisely circular and often forms an ellipse or a setting of four stones laid on an arc of a circle A monolith is a geological feature such as a Mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock or a single piece of rock placed as or within a monument 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. The Merry Maidens ( also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dans Maen) is a late Neolithic Stone circle located 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]. Boskednan stone circle ( is a partially restored prehistoric Stone circle, around 4 miles (6 kilometres northeast of the town of Penzance in the Penwith Tregeseal East ( is a heavily restored prehistoric Stone circle around one mile northeast of the town of St Just in the Penwith District of The Hurlers (Hr Carwynnen is the name of a group of three Stone circles on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, UK. Bodmin Moor ( Cornish: Goen Bren) is a Granite Moorland in northeastern Cornwall, UK, 208 km² (80 sq mile in size dating Hurling or Hurling the Silver Ball (Hyrlîan is an outdoor team Sport of Celtic origin Several isolated standing stones have names associating them with pipers or fiddlers. Standing stones, orthostats, liths or more commonly Megaliths ' because of their large and cumbersome size are solitary stones set vertically in the Pipe describes a number of musical instruments historically referring to perforated wind instruments

Figuratively, the word can also refer to a state of paralysis resulting from fear. Paralysed redirects here For other uses see xx Paralysed (disambiguation Paralysis is the complete loss of Muscle function Fear is an Emotional response to Threats and Danger. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific Stimulus, such as

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