The third and last (but not least) of the three sirens who challenge Orpheus and die in the Orphic Argonautica, Leukōsía “the white” is connected to the city of Paestum and a local legend tells us how she drove a rock through her heart because of the unrequited love with a prince. She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

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Werewolves Wednesday: The Wolf-Leader (13)
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIII: Where it is demonstrated that a Woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her tongue As Thibault was talking to himself he did not catch the few hurried words which Suzanne whispered to the Baron;
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