No, that was Athena.
Mudusa used to be extreemly beautiful. So beautiful that the goddess Aphrodite got jealous of her. So Aphrodite cursed her to turn whatever she looked at to stone, that way Aphrodite was the most beautiful.
She is able to turn people to stone and is beautiful
A very scary gorgon that a gaze could turn anyone to stone, she had serpent hair and boar tusks
you turn into stone
turn people to stone
Scorpions
Athena turned Medusa's hair into snakes because Poseidon slept with Medusa inside Athena's temple.
if you look at her you die
Medusa - she had snakes for hair, and she had the power to turn people to stine with a single gaze.
she can turn you to stone forever by just looking you in the eyes. I did not read her story this way. It appears that after Athena became jealous and changed this beautiful maidens hair into writhing snakes and made her face horrible to look upon this caused those who did so to turn into stone. It appears that it was not special power of Medusa but the sight or shock of seeing such a horrible face caused the change.
a woman with snakes as hair and can turn people to stone if that person looks at her
Her name is spelled Medusa, and yes she can turn people to stone with her eyes.