Scylla

Glaukos (see above myth) eventually goes through a transformation after eating a mysterious herb, and becomes a sea-creature with a thick green beard, and bluish skin, and feet like the tail of a fish. Not long after Glaukos' transformation, Scylla, a beautiful Nêreid, came down to the seashore at night to bathe. There she disrobed and refreshed herself in a shallow pool. In the moonlight she saw a beautiful boy floating with his chest and arms out of the water. She pulled her long hair over her breasts and called to him.They bantered for a time, with ever increasing mutual attraction, but when he got close she saw that his thick hair was green and that his skin was blue, for he was Glaukos. When Scylla saw that he became a fish at his groin, she shrieked, jumped from the pool and ran to the top of a cliff. Then she donned her robe and ran away laughing and yelling about what a disgusting creature he was. Glaukos was furious, but was still burning with love for her. He made his way to the hidden kingdom of Kirkê (Circe), sorceress and sister of Pasiphaê, his mother.

There he called for audience with the sorceress and explained that he was filled with passion for a nymph. He begged her to cast a spell that would turn Scylla's heart so that it would burn with as much passion for him as his did for her. Kirkê, instead, used her powers so that he felt the same lust for her that she felt for him. In a pool in her underground palace they tangled their limbs, hers soft and white, his glossy and blue, and spawned like fish. And through the night they enjoyed every pleasure afforded by their bodies. But in the morning Glaukos admitted to Kirkê that he would never stop loving Scylla. Kirkê was furious and would have destroyed Glaukos, but she loved him too much.

Therefore she turned her wrath toward Scylla. She gathered secret herbs and mixed them together while she sang a magic spell. When she was done, she went to that pool where Scylla was accustomed to refresh herself. She poured her magic potion into the water, intoning over it a complex spell thrice seven times. At her usual time Scylla came to the pool, loosened the robe from her shoulders, and waded waist deep into the pool when suddenly she felt something churning in the water around her thighs. Then the water around her waist erupted with snarling dogs' heads. She jumped from the pool to escape them, but discovered to her horror that they were part of her; her legs were covered with shaggy hair and shaped like dogs; each of her beautiful buttocks had become a yapping dog head, and her place of love had become a snarling dog. That was the revenge of Kirkê. Scylla went to hide in a cave by the shore, where she would show her beautiful torso to lure sailors into her cave. When they came to lie with her, her lustful hunger was satisfied by the ravening dog-heads, for this was the only way they could be fed. Scylla stayed in this place for many years, until she was mercifully turned to stone.