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__ORIGINS__ Scylla was said to have been a beautiful maiden. She was the daughter of Triton and one day a man who was madly in love with Syclla went to a enchantress and bought a potion that would burn Scyllas heart. But the enchantress was secretly in love with Glaucus and got very jealous of his love for another woman, so she created a potion that would ruin Scyllas beauty. The enchantress poured the potion into Scylla's bathing area, once Scylla's skin touched the potion she turned into a UGLY monster. Stories vary about the true origins of Scylla but this story is the most found.

__APPEARENCE__

Scylla is said to have six arms, six heads with 4 eyes each and the lower part of her body constists of six vicious dogs with 3 rows of razor sharp teeth. Scylla is supposedly 15ft tall when her heads are fully extended. Usually Scylla hides herself within a cave only letting her 6 heads look out onto the ocean to see who her next meal will be, also she is said to cause vortexs when she sees these ships.

__MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES__

In the story "The Odyssee" it tells of the stories of a man who took his ship and encountered Scylla. Odyseus was warned by Circre to not sail to close to where Scylla lives because if he did the monster would capture and eat all of his shipmen when she does her daily vortex in the ocean. But Odyseus believed that he could defeat this terrible Scylla so decided to make the journey. They thought they would be able to fight her but because of Scyllas different body parts she was able distract the shipmen with load splashes and soon captured 6 crewmen. The crewman watched as Scylla teared the crew members apart and eat them. Odyseus knew then that he would never be able to defeat the monster so stood there helplessly and told stories of it being the worst scene he had ever encountered. Later on it is said that a man named Herakles defeated the monster but Scylla was soon resuscitated by Phorcys.

__IMPORTANCE/ MODERN REFERENCES__

1. The concept of scylla can be seen or associated with modern says. For example "in between a rock and a hard place" and "lesser than two evils" 2. In a play written by Shakespeare called "Lancelot", Lancelot is making fun of Jessica because both of her parents are jewish and he believes that that is a sin. He compares her parents to Scylla in the fact that she will go to hell, it is inavoidable.

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Odysseus and the sea monster SCYLLA: []

Story of Scylla and Glaucus: []