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SKYLLA (or Scylla) was a monstrous sea goddess who haunted the rocks of certain narrow strait opposite the whirlpool daemon Kharybdis. Ships who sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting heads.
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She was a beautiful water-nymph, but she scorned Glaucus (Neptune's son) and angered Circe (an enchantress.) Circe made a mixture of poisonous plants and poured them in the water where Scylla bathed (on the coast of Sicily.) When Scylla went in the water up to her waist, she found herself surrounded by a brood of...
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Next came Charybdis, who swallows the sea in a whirlpool, then spits it up again. Avoiding this we skirted the cliff where Scylla exacts her toll. Each of her six slavering maws grabbed a sailor and wolfed him down.
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