After the death of Meleager, Artemis turned his grieving sisters, the Meleagrids into guineafowl that Artemis loved very much.

Along with her sisters she threw herself into the sea and was turned into a kingfisher.

Some accounts say one of the sisters was turned to stone instead.

" While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature and occurs in the earliest examples of Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying visage that turned those who beheld her to stone.

" After a failed attempt at record deal with producer Gerry Granahan, the Allbut sisters turned their focus to education.

When the Elders decide to test's Leo faith once and for all to determine if his destiny is to be an Elder or to be with his family, he is turned mortal with no memory of Piper, her sisters, or his children and is turned back into an Elder after his path had been " chosen ".

Without agent and money, the sisters turned to their parents who helped them pay off their debt and found them a new home.

As Maia and the Pleiades are visible in the winter night sky along with the constellation Orion, the Greek myths tell of Maia and her sisters being pursued by the giant huntsman, and turned into doves to preserve their safety.

A major tribal battle ensued, and the sisters were turned to stone by an elder to protect them, but he was killed in the fighting and no one else could turn them back.

** Antiope, nymph of Pieria, the mother, by Pierus, of the Pierides, nine sisters who challenged the muses and, on their defeat, were turned into birds

It was said that every year on that very day when the sisters turned into islands, there will always be storm and rain.

Hannah, having turned into a black panther, charges the sisters, but the intervention of the Whitelighter known as Leo Wyatt saves them.

Chris had tried to warn the sisters of the danger, but they turned a deaf ear to it and he decided to teach them a lesson.

For consolation she turned to drink, charitable work and looking after her sisters ' children.

The test for the sisters turned out to be fighting with a cloaked warrior.

Another legend tells of three Algonquian sisters who were trying to escape a pursuing chieftain and tried to swim across the river ; they drowned and were turned into the rocky islets by the Great Spirit.

Close to her religious mother, brother and sisters, she shared their moral indignation at the king's frequently open adultery, a situation which served to push the king's immediate family away from him as he turned more and more to Madame de Pompadour and later Madame du Barry.

Aghast at what was being taught in the ceramahs ( sermons ), the founding sisters turned to the Quran to find out for themselves what the verses say, as opposed to various interpretations.

During this time, Cleveland lived simply in a boarding house ; although his income grew sufficient to support a more lavish lifestyle, Cleveland continued to support his mother and younger sisters.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett's mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

He returned to London before the end of 1744, but following his father's death in late 1745 he shared a house in Plymouth Dock with his sisters.

As her sisters grow up they begin to leave home, but Beth has no desire to leave her house or family.

When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass.

In her mortal self, Ino, the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, the mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle, was one of the three sisters of Semele, the mortal woman of the house of Cadmus who gave birth to Dionysus.

And will that my executors pay forty thousand pounds in the terme of ten years, by yearly payments of four thousand pounds, the first payment thereof to begin and be made after the decease of my said two sisters for the building a library in Oxford and the purchaseing the house the houses between St Maries and the scholes in Catstreet where I intend the Library to be built, and when the said Library is built I give one hundred and fifty pounds per annum for ever to the Library Keeper thereof for the time being and one hundred pounds a year per annum for ever for buying books for the same Library.

The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call " Papa's recipe "; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth ( a Walton cousin ); a black couple, Verdie and Harley Foster ; Maude, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood ; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house ; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation.

The Mitford sisters and their brother grew up in an aristocratic country house with emotionally distant parents, as well as a large household with numerous servants ; this family situation was not unusual for its time.

His mother, Ramdulari Devi, took him and his two sisters to her father's house and settled down there.

Following the sale of the telephone company, the sisters moved to an unimproved property near Birdsview, building a small house for themselves along with a barn and chicken houses.

The last flashback, from the deceased Agnes ' point of view, is narrated through her diary, and shows her sisters descending upon the house clad in white, like angels.

The Stewart family ( consisting mainly of maiden sisters ), with a large house in Acton, accepted the abandoned children.

His widowed mother, brother, two sisters and an aunt and uncle all lived together in a spacious house — struggling through the depression.

The main characters are three sisters who come of age in a house run by their abusive and womanizing father and must constantly find ways to take care of their depressed and alcoholic mother.

She took the whole Trapassi family – father, mother, brother, sisters – into her own house.

He was brought up in a large detached house on Cyprus Ave, Belfast with his three elder sisters, Sharon, Rhonda and Cherith, and his twin-brother, Kyle.

He took his in-laws into his house, and his wife's sisters took over the care of his children.

Perceval ’ s mother had died in 1783, and Perceval and his brother Charles, now Lord Arden, rented a house in Charlton, where they fell in love with two sisters who were living in the Percevals ' old childhood home.

Then, the Aasu sisters finally decide to confront Puni Puni Poemy, and realize she is actually the Poemy Watanabe they have been hosting in their own house.

Sozomen describes Pulcheria ’ s and her sisters ' pious ways in his Ecclesiastical History: “ They all pursue the same mode of life ; they are sedulous in their attendance in the house of prayer, and evince great charity towards strangers and the poor ... and pass their days and their nights together in singing the praises of God .” Rituals within the imperial palace also included chanting and reciting passages in the scripture, and fasting twice a week.

As the Brangwen sisters walk out of their house ( in reality No. 80, New Street ) near the beginning of the film they are seen walking towards Bank Road.

* Women in Love, Ken Russell's Oscar winning 1969 film, uses a house at the top of New Street ( No. 80 ) as the home of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula.