"In Greek mythology Scilla was once a stupendous nymph that Glauco had fallen in love with. These asked Circe to give the nymph a filter of love, but the sorceress made her instead drink a potion that transformed her into a terrible monster that lived in the cave near Calabria in the Strait of Messina. Scilla was the personification of the terrifying sea vortexes that made the boats wreck by devouring the sailors "
