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Invulnerability

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Stones taken from the cassan plant, which grows in Panter, renders the possessor invulnerable. (Odoricus in Hakluyt.)

A dip in the river Styx rendered Achillēs invulnerable. (Greek fable.)

Medēa rendered Jason, with whom she had fallen in love, proof against wounds and fire by anointing him with the Prometheʹan unguent. (Greek fable.)

Siegfried (2 syl.) was rendered invulnerable by anointing his body with dragon’s blood. (Nibelungen Lied.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Invalide (French)
Inveigle
Invention of the Cross [discovery of the cross]
Inventors Punished
Inventors Punished
Investiture. (Latin, clothing in or putting on canonicals.)
Invincible Doctor
Invisibility
Invisibles
Invulnerability
Iol (pron. Yol)
Ionian Mode
Ionic Accomplishments
Ionic Architecture
Ionic School or Ionic Philosophers
Iormungandur
Iota
Iphicles Oxen
Iphicratensians
Iphigenia