Skylla

Sometimes spelled Scylla. The first of the two horrible monsters Odysseus must pass with his men (the second is Charybdis). Skylla has six heads and plucks six men from the ship as it passes. Odysseus has been instructed not to try to fight the monster, but rather to row by as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, it takes a good amount of spewing and crunching for him to remember this.