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Achilles’ heel. When he was a baby, Achilles’ mother, the goddess Thetis, dipped him into the magic waters of the river Styx to coat his body with a magic shield that no weapon could penetrate. However, she held him by the heel, so that this part of his body remained vulnerable. Paris learned of his secret during the Trojan War, shooting an arrow into his heel and kill- ing him. Achilles’ heel has since come to mean the weak part of anything. |