Stone golem

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The stone golem is a golem. It may come about after another type of golem is stoned[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].

When a stone golem is killed, it leaves a statue (of a stone golem) rather than a corpse[17]. The stone golem's inventory becomes the contents of the statue,[18] which is probably empty: the stone mindless golem never picks up items and it has no items when generated, so it is unlikely to be worth breaking the statue for a spellbook. A randomly-generated statue of stone golem in the dungeon may still contain one spellbook.

Casting stone to flesh on the "animated" stone golem will turn it into a flesh golem. Stoning this flesh golem will turn it back to a stone golem. Casting stone to flesh on a statue of a stone golem will create a single meatball, because the golem is not considered a fleshy monster.

Stone golems are always generated with 60 hit points.[19][20]

Encyclopedia entry

"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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