Stone golem

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The stone golem is a golem. It may come about after another type of golem is stoned. When a stone golem is killed, it leaves a statue (of a stone golem) rather than a corpse.

Casting stone to flesh on either the "animated" stone golem or its statue will change it into a flesh golem. Stoning this flesh golem will turn it back to a stone golem.

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              "The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
              century.  Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
              said to have made an artificial man -- the so-called Golem -- to
              help ring the bells in the Synagogue and for all kinds of other
              menial work.
              "But he hadn't made a full man, and it was animated by some sort
              of vegetable half-life.  What life it had, too, so the story
              runs, was only derived from the magic charm placed behind its
              teeth each day, that drew down to itself what was known as the
              `free sidereal strength of the universe.'
              "One evening, before evening prayers, the rabbi forgot to take
              the charm out of the Golem's mouth, and it fell into a frenzy.
              It raged through the dark streets, smashing everything in its
              path, until the rabbi caught up with it, removed the charm, and
              destroyed it.  Then the Golem collapsed, lifeless.  All that was
              left of it was a small clay image, which you can still see in
              the Old Synagogue." ...
                  [ The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink ]

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