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Stones in Water is a 1997 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli. It is set during World War II and tells the story of two Italian boys, one of whom is Jewish, who are sent to a work camp. Their struggle to survive, hide the Jewish boy's ethnicity, and the defeat of one and escape of another is chronicled.
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.
Stones in the Sea (Chinese: Qin hai shi) is a 1906 novel by an anonymous Chinese author, written under the pseudonym Fu Lin. The novel is set in turn of the century China , during the period of the Boxer rebellion .
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nala (Sanskrit: नल, IAST: nala, lit. lotus), is the vanara (monkey), who is credited as the engineer of the Rama Setu, a bridge across the ocean between Rameswaram and Lanka, identified with modern-day Sri Lanka, so forces of the god Rama can pass over to Lanka.
Colored Stones of Nüwa, five colored stones crafted by the goddess Nüwa that each represent one of the five Chinese elements, fire, water, earth, metal, and wood. ( Chinese Mythology ) Madstone , a special medicinal substance that, when pressed into an animal bite, was believed to prevent rabies by drawing the "poison" out.
The sea-god Varuna tells Rama that both of them possess the ability to make stones float on water. [8] The tale elaborates on how the two vanaras came to have this power: In their youth these vanaras, being very mischievous, often play by throwing the murtis (holy images) worshipped by the sages in the water. To prevent the sacred images from ...
After learning a "flying stones" technique from a divine warrior in a mystical dream, she has been wanting to find that warrior and marry him. In the initial battles against the Liangshan forces, she uses the "flying stones" technique to defeat Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang and Sun Xin, and even manages to force Lin Chong to retreat.
Stones in His Pockets is a two-hander written in 1996 by Marie Jones for the DubbleJoint Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland. The play is a tragicomedy about a small rural town in Ireland where many of the townspeople are extras in a Hollywood film. The story centres on Charlie Conlon and Jake Quinn, who, like much of the town, are employed as ...