Graiae

Greek mythology

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The Graiae were three sisters in Greek mythology who shared one eye and one tooth among them. They were the sisters of the Gorgons, monstrous female creatures with snakes for hair, whose gaze could turn people to stone. In the myth of Perseus, he enlisted the help of the Graiae to obtain magical items necessary for his quest to slay Medusa, one of the Gorgons. By seizing their shared eye and tooth, Perseus compelled the Graiae to reveal the location of the Gorgons and provide him with winged sandals, the cap of Hades, and a sickle.12

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… and Athena, Perseus pressed the Graiae, sisters of the Gorgons, into helping him by seizing the one eye and one tooth that the sisters shared and not returning them until they provided him with winged sandals (which enabled him to fly), the cap of Hades (which conferred invisibility), a curved…
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… and Athena, Perseus pressed the Graiae, sisters of the Gorgons, into helping him by seizing the one eye and one tooth that the sisters shared and not returning them until they provided him with winged sandals (which enabled him to fly), the cap of Hades (which conferred invisibility), a curved…
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