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Charybdis herself was never seen. She lived under the rocks at the bottom of the Sicilian side of the Straits of Messina, opposite from Scylla. All that was ever seen was a whirlpool.

She, and Scylla, were the personification of the dangers of navigating the straits before powered locomotion. The currents made them dangerous to the extreme, and most sailors went around Sicily to avoid them.

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Charybdis was a once beautiful naiad who took the form a bladder of a creature, whose face is all mouth and has flippers as arms and legs. In some variations of her myths, she is a whirlpool. She resided by Scylla and caused the wrecks of many ships.

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