By implanting Xantcha's heartstone ( her only remains ) into a silver golem, Urza created Karn, a being that could theoretically enter rifts created by his temporal disruptor and change the past.

While no golem is really female, no golem is really male either and when Miss Maccalariat, the head cashier at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, demanded that only females could clean the female toilets, a golem was given a cotton blue print dress and a woman's name to do the job.

* Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm-one of his famous students who, according to legend, could create a golem creature.

In the visions, Zosimos mentions encountering a man who impales himself with a sword, and then undergoes " unendurable torment ": his eyes become blood, he spews forth his flesh, and changes into " the opposite of himself, into a mutilated anthroparion ( a Greek alchemical concept of a being somewhat similar to a golem but possessing a sense of will and intelligence ), and he tore his flesh with his own teeth, and sank into himself ".

They then pull the deranged golem Mr. Crane out of storage, and escape from Cheyne III on a smuggling ship piloted by Jarvellis.

Like anthropomorphic robots, a golem may be created with good intentions, but its absence of human empathy and spirit can lead to disaster.

* Gamda-A massive stone golem that seems to be made out of several temples with a huge eye in the middle.

The only option left to the crew of the Weatherlight was to unlock the full potential of the artifacts of the Legacy, primarily Urza's powerstone eyes which contained Glacian's soul, Gerrard himself, bred to be the ultimate warrior, the Weatherlight, and the silver golem Karn.

Levels will also sport more enemies in normal mode, and should the player die playing with either the dragon, golem, or mouse, that character will no longer be selectable until the player beats the level.

The earliest known written account of the creation of a golem by a historical figure reported a tradition connected to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm ( 1550 – 1583 ).

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

More recent humaniform examples include the brooms from the legend of the sorcerer's apprentice derived from a tale by Lucian of Samosata in the 1st century AD, the Jewish legend of the golem created like Adam from clay, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

The story follows the members of the City Watch, as they attempt to solve murders apparently committed by a golem, as well as the unusual poisoning of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari.

The title is a figure of speech from Hebrew scripture ( see feet of clay ) and the script used in the book to represent Morporkian being written by a golem resembles the Hebrew alphabet, a reference to golems ' origins in Jewish folktales.

As part of an equal-opportunities drive required by the Patrician, the Night Watch under Vimes eventually took on extra staff in the form of a werewolf, a dwarf and a troll ( and later a gargoyle, a gnome, a golem, an Igor, a zombie, and a vampire ).

The only survivor is Kagero, who is captured and is almost raped by her assailant, a huge stone golem called Tessai.

After a thwarted attempt at escape, Moist is brought to the Post Office by his parole officer Mr. Pump, a golem.

The conflict culminates in a fight between Gamma and a giant golem summoned by Balmunk, which Gamma defeats after entering Balmunk's tent and leaving a berserk state.

* Monolith, aka Tommy Czuchra, a brilliant if introverted teenaged boy who was crushed to death by a landslide ; he received the ability to become an enormous super-strong stone / earth golem.

Like Death, those golems capable of speech have a distinctive mannerism ; whereas Death's speech is represented by being printed all in small caps, transcriptions of golem speech capitalize the first letter of every word.

Dorfl joined the Watch during the events of Feet of Clay, at which time he was set free by Captain Carrot, sustained considerable damage fighting the golem king, and was rebuilt to a considerable degree, granting him a voice ( which had been considered blasphemous for golems to possess, prior to Dorfl's argument with the Council of Churches, Temples, Sacred Groves and Big Ominous Rocks ).

They were saved only by the intervention of Dorfl, the first free golem, who, despite terrible bodily damage and the loss of his chem, managed to kill the king by destroying its head.

Perhaps because of this instability, it was also able to reassemble itself when dismembered or broken, a trait shared by no other golem seen on the Disc thus far ( though they can — and do — mend themselves, leading to their " gingerbread men " appearance over time ).

Despite his traditional moderate behavior, Offler was described as ' trigger-happy ' by a priest when he struck the golem, Dorfl, with lightning after the golem doubted the gods ( a lightning bolt almost struck the priest as well, but as he was the head priest of Blind Io the lightning was averted and hit the ground harmlessly a few feet away ).

An excerpt from the Cenotine " Book of Truth " was the Chem of the golem Dorfl, until Carrot Ironfoundersson purchased him and set him free by replacing it with the receipt of the purchase.

Death, for example, speaks in small capitals, while the dialog of a golem who can only communicate by writing resembles Hebrew script, in reference to the origins of the golem legend.

Balsam and Saxon contribute no more than their required quota of urbane sneers before being bulldozed into oblivion by the golem hero of this irredeemably routine potboiler.

* the golem type-androids made from flexible, possibly organic material, including golems and homunculi

In Jewish folklore, a golem ( ; ) is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter.

During the Middle Ages, passages from the Sefer Yetzirah ( Book of Creation ) were studied as a means to attain the mystical ability to create and animate a golem, although there is little in the writings of Jewish mysticism that supports this belief.

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague, also known as the Maharal, who reportedly created a golem to defend the Prague ghetto from antisemitic attacks and pogroms.

A dragon is considerably stronger and can attack from a distance, while a golem moves slowly and fires a slow but powerful boulder.

To protect the Jewish community from the Christian mob, Loew uses the knowledge of Kabbalah to create the golem Joseph from clay.

* A massive golem from The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

The money earned in this way allows a Trust golem to eventually buy itself from the Trust and become free.

In the legend, he animates a golem, a being crafted from inanimate material.

Santo, in theory, is able to re-form himself as a " golem " from some kind of ambient earth matter and obtain that earth matter's properties.

A giant lava golem that appeared from a meteor that crashed into Mariner Bay summoned by Jinxer.

The same solution also worked against the pretension of humans to have the same power of creation as God ( hence their banishment from the Heavens, the destruction of Babel, and the Second Commandment in the biblical texts, or the myth of the golem in Jewish literature ).

Shelley also drew on European folklore, such as the medieval Jewish legend of the golem, and German, Czech and Moravian ghost stories featuring vengeful dead ( many of whom have characteristics of vampires rather than zombies ).

Other mentioned properties include: creation of perpetually burning lamps, transmutation of common crystals into precious stones and diamonds, reviving of dead plants, creation of flexible or malleable glass, or the creation of a clone or golem.