Scylla and Charybdis: Monsters of Greek mythology

Scylla and Charybdis is one of the Greek mythology. In the Greek

Mythology this monsters descriped as two immortal and irresistible
monsters who beset the narrow waters traversed by the hero Odysseus in
his wanderings described in Homer’s Odyssey. And in this stories, they
were later localized in the Strait of Messina.
Charybids is the first born of the two monsters. The personification of
charybids are a gigantic whirlpool; a whirlpool where water would be drawn
in and out three times a day. Charybdis was thought to be able to sink
whole ships. Charybids was thought to be the daughter of Poseidon, the
Olympian Sea God, and Gaia, the Earth Goddess. And was thought was
born monstrous. Charybdis, who lurked under a fig tree a bowshot away on
the opposite shore, drank down and belched forth the waters thrice a day
and was fatal to shipping
Scylla was a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and 6 heads on
long, snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth, while
her loins were girdled by the heads of baying dogs. From her lair in a cave
she devoured whatever ventured within reach, including six of Odysseus’s
companions. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books XIII–XIV, she was said to
have been originally human in appearance but transformed out of jealousy
through the witchcraft of Circe into her fearful shape. She was sometimes
identified with the Scylla who betrayed her father, King Nisus of Megara,
out of love for Minos, king of Crete.
Scylla was often rationalized in antiquity as a rock or reef. Both gave poetic
expression to the dangers confronting Greek mariners when they first
ventured into the uncharted waters of the western Mediterranean. To be
“between Scylla and Charybdis” means to be caught between two equally
unpleasant alternatives