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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Mar 23 05:14 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:50 PM:

However, pieces with these names should show a woman with snakes for hair rather than a target with lines or arrows coming from it, which seems to be based on how a particular piece moves instead of its name.

In biology 'medusa' is a stage in the life cycle of jellyfish, and I think the image attempts to depict that (the dashed lines representing the tentacles).

Anyway, the original Alfaerie GIFs used this image, and I just made an SVG copy when I needed it to equip some variant article with an Interactive Diagram. I never used the piece myself.