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was the jailoress in Tartarus who guarded the Cyclopes and the
Hecatoncheires (the Giants). She was double-shaped, and female
to her hips. From her chest to her thighs she was covered in
fish scales. Over her shoulders a scorpion curled around itself.
She was killed by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes and the Giants
to fight the Titans. Campe means "Crooked". Charybdis was once a
nymph, the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. And she flooded lands
for her father's underwater kingdom until Zeus turned her into a
monster (for stealing and eating some of Heracles' sheep - well,
they were really Geryon's sheep, check it out in the Myth Pages)
and had her suck in and out water three times an day. She lived
in a cave on the Sicilian side of the Strait of Messina,
opposite the monster Scylla (see below), the two of them forming
a dangerous threat to passing ships. She probably explained a
whirlp