Talk:Medusa/@comment-25095137-20140713201611/@comment-73.179.216.102-20141227091806

That's true. In some versions, Medusa was RAPED by Poseidon in Athena's temple and the wisdom witch (replace the w with b) cursed Medusa instead. She was the only one who had stone powers. Her sisters were affected too, but they couldn't turn others to stone.

Sometimes in the story of Arachne, they had equal-quality tapestries and Athena cursed her out of anger. In others, she was cursed because her art mocked the gods. In other tales, Arachne lost, killed herself and Athena "had pity" and turned her into a spider and alive again. Here's my question: If Athena could make her alive again, why turn her into a spider? Seems pretty cruel. Either way, Athena's a witch with a B instead of W.