Reading Notes (Extra Credit): Brothers Grimm (Ashliman) Part A

For this extra credit reading I took it upon myself to read out of the Grimm Brothers Children's and Household Tales. This particular translation was done by Ashliman. The story I took most interest in was the one called "Little Red Cap". This is all too familiar with the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In this rendition almost everything was exact as the story I heard growing up and continue to hear. These are, however, minor detail changes here and there because of course this isn't the American version, instead it is the European one. In both versions the Wolf is the main villain and he is seen as the one who tries to eat Little Red Riding Hood. In my rendition I would turn it around. I know there are multiple versions of this story, even the one that I'm suggesting but this version will be told in my own voice. The Wolf would be the victim instead of the villain and the Little Red Riding Hood would be the antagonist. However, I might have to change the actual character of the Little Red Riding Hood to someone who is more villain like.  

Brothers Grimm by Ashliman, link to online reading

(Little Red Riding Hood & Wolf, Source: Getty Images)

Reading Notes: Grimm (LibriVox) Part B

In the second part of this unit's readings, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the twelve huntsmen. In this story there lived a prince and his father, the king. The prince was happily married to a bride when he caught news of his fathers illness. He told the bride that when he was named king he would come back to her and left on horseback. When the prince arrived at the palace, the king was near death and his last dying wish was for the prince to marry a handpicked maiden. Not knowing what he was saying, the prince agreed and the father died. The prince, now named king, married to a new queen. The true bride caught news of this and ordered her father to bring her maidens that looked like her and eleven of them. He found them all around and brought them to the true bride to be clothed like a huntsmen. They were then sent away to the king whom accepted them with open arms. The king had a lion, however, and this lion warned the king that these were not men, but instead women. The king put them to the test multiple times including having them walk on peas and look at spinning-wheels. The huntsmen had an ally on their side who was a servant of the king. He informed them of these challenged and thus they all passed. One day the king was informed that his queen would be arriving shortly. This made the true bride faint and fall to the ground. The king went to her and took off her gloves. Then he realized that this was his former bride who he married before his father died. When she woke, he told her that she was the only one he loved and informed the queen that she was no longer needed. In my story I would take it a bit further and have the ex-queen become jealous and exact her revenge of the kingdom in some form or another.

Grimm (LibriVox) by Brothers Grimm, link to online reading

(The King and his Lion, Source: Twelve Huntsmen)

Reading Notes: Grimm (LibriVox) Part A

For this unit I decided that the story "The Frog Prince" was the best suited for me if I decided to retell it in my own words. The story goes that a princess goes out one night with her toy ball and is continuously throwing it into the sky. She throws it higher and higher until suddenly she throws it so high that when it comes down, it bounces into a spring. She cried and weeps and even says that she'd give away all her belongings just to get the ball back. Upon hearing this a frog emerged from the spring and told her that he would get the ball for her if she let him sit next to her, eat off her plate, and sleep on her bed. The arrogant princess she is, said yes, but once the frog retrieved her ball she sprinted back to her castle in joy and forgot about the frog. The next morning the frog appeared at her door, but she freaked out and worried her parents. She told her parents about the night before and they told her that she must respect her promises, so she let the frog hop on her chair and sit next to her. She let him eat off her plate until he was full and once that happened she took him up to her bed to sleep. The same thing happened the next day and the next day. However, on the final day the frog turned into a handsome prince and asked for her hand in marriage. She agreed and they lived happily ever after. This reminds me a lot of the Disney movie "The Princess and the Frog". In my own version I would make the frog's three things to break the witches curse be something more interesting instead of just sitting, eating, and sleeping for three straight days.

Grimm (LibriVox) by Brothers Grimm, link to online reading

(The Princess and the Frog, Source: Richard Crouse)

Reading Notes (Extra Credit): English Fairy Tales Part A

In this weeks extra credit reading, I decided to go ahead and read the unit on English Fairy Tales. The great thing is that a lot of these stories I grew listening to and reading about, so I have a lot of background knowledge on them. One in particular was "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" and how the wolf tried to blow down all the houses, but couldn't blow the brick house down. In Joseph Jacobs version it goes on a little bit further and tells the tale of how the wolf cunningly tried to get the pig to go outside the house so he could eat them. If i retold this story I would make the pigs the bad guys and the wolf the victim. Another story was "The Old Woman and Her Pig" which mimicked the familiar story of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". It was told as a nursery rhyme. In "Cap o' Rushes", there is a girl who is thrown out of her home for doing something small. She covers herself in mud and other nasty stuff and goes on to find herself a new home. There are three dances that are thrown, but the girl doesn't want to go and instead stays home. Eventually she gets ready for the final dance and ends up meeting her master's son. He finds out her true identity and they live happily ever after. It sounds a lot like a Disney tale to me. 

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, link to online reading

(Three Little Pigs, Source: Gathering Books)

Reading Notes: Canterbury Tales Part A

After reading Part A of the collection of stories known as the "Canterbury Tales," I grew to like the Pardoner's Tale the most. In olden times the person with the title of "pardoner" was a part of the church who would go around the countryside and sell pardons that would forgive the sins of the buyer. These pardons were signed by the bishop himself. In my opinion these pardons sound like they were fake and only were sold to make money for the church or even for the individual themselves. The pardoner in this tales starts off by mentioning a group of three troublesome and rebellious boys. All they cared about was drinking and having fun with no care whatsoever in the world. They did give back to their society or care about anyone in it. One day the group of boys eavesdrop into a conversation about Death and how he keeps killing the people of their village. The tavern keeper also drops the fact that Death lives in the village next door. This makes Death an actual figure and not a figure of speech. Much like my project where Death is personified and is a person, it seems like the same is being done in this tale as well. The group of kids come to the decision that they will take on the task and vanquish Death himself. On their journey to the next village they stumbled upon an elderly man, but knowing the arrogance of the kids they start to make fun of him. Now for some reason the thought that the man might be a spy for Death came across them and they started to intimidate the old man. They demanded to know where Death was. The old man tells them that the path ahead leads straight to Death. The group of men stumbled upon a pile of gold along the road. One of them is sent into the village to get food for the rest while they wait on the gold. They didn't want to be seen taking the gold, so they waited until nightfall. While they were all separated they all plotted in their heads to kill one another and take each others portions of gold. In the end they all end up dead which indicates that Death was their endgame. The ending of this tale had a very nice twist. I thought they would actually find the figure of Death, but instead found it amongst themselves.

Canterbury Tales by Eva March Tappan, link to online reading

(A Pardoner, Source: Alamy)

Reading Notes: Welsh Fairy Tales (Emerson) Part A

The Welsh (Emerson) unit was a really great read, but the language was a bit hard to understand since it is in Welsh. It's a lot different than English in that it's spelling is quite different. I chose this story because it was something that I've never heard about. After reading Part A I began to realize that this unit had many stories that revolved around fairies. I soon found out that fairies were more scary mythical creatures than I had previously known. I thought they were all like Disney fairies. I thought wrong. In the first of the stories there is a main character who is the queen of all fairies. She isn't the only character that is important in the story, but she has a big impact on the story. This story in particular showed the reader that fairies are very reasonable. They can use their magical powers for good or for revenge. The story is about the fairies who help the lives of two men and one of the men's sons. They are forever grateful and in return the son of the men aid the fairies in their quest to vanquish an evil witch. After their task is complete, the fairies grant the son a beautiful wife and they live happily ever after. If I were to retell this story I would want to keep a lot of the story the same. Except I would try to tell it from the sons perspective, this would give the story a new set of eyes and everything would be viewed differently. Even the emotions would be different. 

Welsh Fairy Tales (Emerson) by Peter Emerson, link to online reading

(Fairies, Source: Pinterest)

Reading Notes: Apache Tales Part B

In Part B of the reading, there were many stories that consists of a main character, the coyote. At first I thought he was the main character of each story, but I was wrong. He was only a support character. I also initially thought that these tales were connected in some way, but again I was wrong. In the first story the coyote is a trickster who plots to steal a poor man's wife. One day the poor man his household and when he returns he finds that it is an empty house. The coyote has stolen the wife and taken her back to his tipi. Eventually the poor man rescues his wife and when he returns he devises a plan to exact revenge on the evil coyote. He burns rocks till there are fiery hot and wraps in fat, so that the coyote can't resist them. This works and the coyote chows them down only to die in the end. In the next story, there is an owl who posses with him black arrows that can kill any man. The coyote in this story is greedy and wants them for himself, so he breaks the owls leg and steals the arrows. The owl is left for dead and now everyone knew the coyote was the one who possessed the arrows, so they were afraid. A pack of antelope aspire to fool the coyote an retrieve the arrows back. They get the coyote to put his quiver on one antelope and his arrows on another. This way two parts that equal a whole were divided. They told the coyote that this was a race to get his arrows back, but when they begin to run the antelope initiate their devious plan and run in different directions. The coyote is hopeless because he can't catch both. The next coupe stories involved the coyote again, but the confusing part was whether the coyote was the protagonist or antagonist. In one story is steals and another he is the victim. In my opinion, if I rewrote one of these stories I would make the coyote a adversary because coyote have a stereotypical appeal.

Apache Tales by P.E. Goddard, link to online reading

(Coyote, Source: National Geographic)

Reading Notes: Apache Tales Part A

After reading the collection of Apache Tales I was very confused. The stories themselves were clear and the plot was understandable, but the use of their language was very confusing. Mainly it was the use of pronouns that caught me off guard. If I use one of these stories to retell then my main objective will be to make the stories more understandable for the reader to follow. One of the stories about Naiyenesgani utilizes the colors blue, yellow, black, and mixed colors. These colors are a very integral part of every story that keep reappearing. The story goes that Naiyenesgani goes to hunt down a swamp monster and save the people of his tribe. The integral colors are used in his hoops that are used to drain the water and kill the monster. I can see that the colors are very important to every story, so making sure I utilize them in my own story will be very important.

Apache Tales by P.E. Goddard, link to online reading

(Apache Tales, Source: Tales of Faerie)

Reading Notes: Native American Hero Tales Part B

Just like for Part A of the reading, Part B consisted of four stories. The story that stuck out to me and intrigued me the most was the one about the jealous father. This story was about a son who was born to the wife of the jealous father. He had two wives. One day he saw that the son had been on terms of intimacy with one of his wives. He then took the boy out to fish for eggs and once the son left the boat, the father turned around and deserted him on the island. He called for help and cried for hours. A walrus finally came to aid the son. He told the son to let him know if there was any lightning for he had to go underwater if there was. The boy lied which led to the walrus's death, but the son made it back to the island safely. The walrus was from the mother and the thunderstorms were from the father. On the island, an old woman from the mother came to aid the son. She gave him an animal disguise and he went into the forest. He stumbled upon two blind women who had bones sticking out their elbows. The son fooled them both into thinking he was sitting between them and had them stab each other to death. Next the boy came upon a pile of bones and a hut where dogs and people were. He dug a path underneath all the bones, but somehow managed to rustled the bones. This alarmed the dogs and the people so they went to search for him. He fooled them once again and made it back home safely. He burned down the world along with his father, but saved his mother. They both turned into birds and flew off.

Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson, link to online reading

 (Blue Jay, Source: Pinterest)

Reading Notes: Native American Hero Tales Part A

There were a total of four stories in Part A of Native American Hero Tales. My favorite of them all had to be the one called "The Jealous Uncle". This story was about an uncle who took the every son that this family bore and killed him. He had killed 3 before a 4th child came into this world. He was kept a secret and the uncle's wife told him that they had bore a daughter and not a a son. However, the uncle found out anyways when he saw what was underneath his clothes. The uncle asked for the son and took him out to get some logs. They wandered out far into the forest where the son got caught in one of the logs. The uncle left him there to die and rot however he had tools with him that led to his escape. He gathered the log and left them in front of his uncles tent. The uncle was furious and tried to kill him many more times. Next was with ducks and eggs, then it was with clams, and then finally he made the nephew a box. He trapped the son inside this box and threw him into the ocean where he drifted from island to island until finally he halted. Two daughters found him on the shore and brought him back to their village where the chief decided to care and raise him. However, he began to miss his previous home and his parents, so with permission from the Eagle people, he flew back to the previous village. He brought them back a huge whale, but the jealous uncle took it all for himself and left none for the nephews parents. He was furious and took the uncle up into the sky and dropped him into the ocean. He couldn't swim for he drowned and died. The nephew got his revenge and took his parents back to his new found home where they all lived happily. I like the story of death and revenge. It reminds me of high school or even middle school where a girl would get jealous of someone and try to ruin their life. If I choose to do this story I would modernize it into a school type story and leaving out death. 

Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson, link to online reading

(Native American Eagle, Source: Snow Owl)

Reading Notes: The Monkey King Sun Wu Kung Part B

Picking up where we left off in Part A, this section begins with the Lord of the Heavens concerned about Sun Wu Kung and his arrogance and his cannibalistic ways. He plans to punish the ape harshly, but the Evening Star insists another course of action. He brings Sun Wu Kung up to the heavens and bestows upon him the role of a stable keeper. He soon finds out that this is a lowly position and is furious, so he goes back to his homeland. Li Dsing and Notscha come down and try to fight the Monkey King so that he may be brought back and punished for his crimes. However the Monkey King is too strong and no one can defeat him. The Evening Star once again suggests that a higher position be bestowed upon him so that he may be satisfied and not revolt. He is then put in charge of watching over the garden of the Queen Mother. However he eats most of the fruit in the garden. The fairies come for him, but are frozen in place by him. He sneaks back to his island and this time Yang Oerlang is sent for him. He is a match for the Monkey King and after countless matches the Monkey King loses and is taken back to the heavens. They try to burn him to ashes but are not successful, so he escapes. The Lord of the Heavens asks Buddha to help him take down the Monkey King and he is successful. He traps him in a mountain for many many years. In this story Sun Wu Kung is very arrogant and takes things too lightly. He is a very ungrateful person and wants what he doesn't have. In my rendition I would like to humble him some more and possible change his fate in the end.

The Monkey King Sun Wu Kung by R. Wilhelm, link to online reading

(Sun Wu Kung, Source: Wikipedia)

Reading Notes: The Monkey King Sun Wu Kung Part A

For part A of this unit it was a very fun and very linear read. The plot line is very straightforward and is easy to follow along. I was engaged the whole time I was reading it. The story starts off on an island where a stone ape is born out of a stone that is split open. The ape matures and grows up on this island with other apes. Soon the other apes dare each other to find out who can cross the waterfall unharmed and so the stone ape steps up to the challenge and gets through. This is where he finds the iron bridge and the cave castle. After 300 or so years of living in peace and harmony, the stone ape thinks that death is surely to come for him while he idly waits so he seeks out immortality by traveling the seas and meeting different religions. He stumbles upon a wood-chopper who shows him the way to a saint. The stone is give the name Sun Wu Kung. He studies and becomes the masters apprentice. He learns of different incantations and develops many abilities one of these is flying. Eventually he learns the ways of immortality and can transform into anything he wishes. He is then banished from the establishment for exposing his teachings and goes back to his home island where his ape family awaits. He finds out that the Devil King has come and taken away most of the children so he goes and fights the Devil King. Defeating him and taking his weapon as a prize. The children return safely, but as time goes on Sun Wu Kung is scared that they are weaponless and are vulnerable for future attacks, so he goes out and find weapons for the entire ape population, but he grows old of his own weapon. He seeks out the Dragon King and Queen for a stronger weapon. They give him an enormous iron bar that he can make small or big. He then demands for armor as well, which they also provide. Finally he goes back happy, but one night as he is sleeping he dreams of the Princes of the Dead dragging him to Hell. He scares them off and demands to see the Book of Life. He takes off the apes names so that they can live forever. However, he is suddenly awoken from his dream. 

The Monkey King Sun Wu Kung by R. Wilhelm, link to online reading

(Sun Wu Kung and his Master, Source: Wikipedia)

Reading Notes (Extra Credit): Dante's Inferno Part B

In the second half of Dante's Inferno we resume with Dante and his guide, Virgil, as they descend down further in the seventh circle of hell. They continue to meet mythical creatures, poets, etc. Before descending down into the 7th circle they meet the Minotaur and inside the 7th circle they meet the Centaurus who guide them further. Further inside the 7th circle are rings and inside those rings they meet Capaneus, the Harpies, the Old Man of Crete, and Geryon. Geryon is a mythical creature that has the face of a man and a body of a dragon. They use Geryon to descend down into the eighth circle. They meet many more people in the 8th circle such as Jason, the Demons, Caiaphas, Ulysses (Odysseus), Diomede, the Giants, and Ugolino. All tell Dante and Virgil their stories of how they ended up in the Inferno. Lastly, they go into the center of Hell where they meet Lucifer, the Devil. He has three faces, 6 wings, cries tears of blood, and is stationed in a icy underworld.

In my project I want Charley and Death to only visit three of the circles of hell. I'll briefly mention other circles as they make their way down to certain ones, but not in detail. Unfortunately I will not be able to meet Satan in my project, but he can be mentioned briefly by Death. I like the idea of Geryon as a means of transportation for Dante and Virgil, but Death and Charley will have a different type of transportation.

Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri, link to online reading

(Dante's Inferno, Source: OWHL Guides)

Reading Notes: Japanese Fairy Tales Part A

There were 6 fairy tales in Part A of this reading and one of them really stuck out to me for a possible storytelling idea. This is the story of the Stonecutter who is never satisfied with himself. First we becomes a rich man, then a prince, then the sun, then the clouds, and then the mountain. Finally, he revert back to a stone cutting man with whom he is satisfied. In this story he seems like a very selfish individual and always wants to be something else, never satisfied with what he has. I would like to change that in my rendition and provide a sense of humbleness for the stone cutter. In this story the stone cutter is transformed by the mountain spirit who he takes for granted. I would like for him to be a grateful person in the end. I want to also make a mountain spirit an actually person or animal because a spirit is hard to imagine. That way the reader can relate more to the mountain spirit and it will give it a sense of purpose and meaning. Everything else I would keep the same because I do enjoy what the stone cutter wants to become and in each succession. It makes sense in that order.

Japanese Fairy Tales by Andrew Lang, link to online reading

(Stonecutter, Source: The Henry Brothers)

Reading Notes (Extra Credit): Dante's Inferno Part A

In Dante's Inferno the visual cues are very strong in each aspect of the comedy. Details are given at key moments to show the reader what it is that Dante is seeing at the moment. For instance, the part where Dante and Virgil come to the gate leading to hell they see a cave with an inscription at the top basically saying "abandon all hope, ye who enters". I love the visual cues and I want to try and replicate that in my project. This will help the reader get a better sense of the environment.

Another aspect of Dante's Inferno is the character of Dante himself. Dante is basically having a midlife crisis and is lead to the path towards evil and hopelessness when Virgil steps in helps Dante, guiding him through the circles of hell. Even throughout his journey, he is constantly afraid and saddened by what he sees. I want my character, Charley, to embody these same emotions when he travels through hell with Death. However, in my version, Charley will be taught a "lesson" for his constant sinning, so the emotion of scared and afraid will play a huge part in my rendition.

The wide array of fictional characters, hero's, gods, goddesses, poets, beasts, etc. is very eye opening to me because that gives me free reign when picking my own people for Charley to visit. The endless possibilities is very assuring because I can pick and choose anybody in recent history or current history. Not just ancient history like Dante did.

Lastly, I like the structure of hell itself. First there is the gateway to hell where there is a ferryman who takes them on a boat to the first circle of Limbo. Each circle goes deeper into the Inferno and with each decent there is an increase in wickedness and evil. I want to keep this aspect of the original story in my own. It creates a very easy visual cue for readers to imagine as my character makes his way down to the center of hell. However, since I'm only doing 3 stories, I won't have time to visit all 10 circles of hell, so I'll have to cut it short and visit only 3.

Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri, link to online reading

(Circles of Hell, Source: Pinterest)

Reading Notes: Indian Fairy Tales Part B

In the Part B of the Indian fairy tales there were a total of 7 stories. Ironically, the last story was the most enjoyable of them all. This was a story concerning the Sun, Moon, and Wind. Their mother, the Star in the sky, let them out to have a feast with friends. However, none of them thought of their mother in their time of fun except the Moon. The Moon brought back a little bit of everything for Star. The mother cursed the Sun to burn so hot that people would have to avoid it and the Wind to blow during the heat to parch and shrivel all things. What really stood out to me was the moral/lesson of the story: even in times of fun you must be humble and not forget who got you where you are. A son or daughter should not forget their parents, especially their mother who gave birth to them. It's easy to forget where you came from, but that's the whole point of this story. I love the story overall, but in my rendition I would change what the Sun, Moon, and Wind were going out for. Maybe instead they grew up and went on with their lives leaving their mother behind, instead of going out to hang with friends. I might also change the characters themselves to something entirely different.

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, link to online reading

(Sun, Moon, and Wind, Source: MainLesson)

Reading Notes: Indian Fairy Tales Part A

This week I chose to read a collection of Indian fairy tales. There were 8 short stories in Part A of the reading, but only one story really stood out to me and caught my eye. This was the story of "The Tiger, The Brahman, and The Jackal". This story was very fun and engaging. The language, words, and grammar used was easier to comprehend than the other readings. I like the story, but I don't like the characters. I would keep the tiger because of it's dangerous presence, but would change the Brahman and jackal. To replace the Brahman would be a hunter instead because a hunter would understand the dangers of letting out a tiger and would make more sense in this story and for the jackal I would replace it with a rabbit or bunny like Bugs Bunny. The beginning of the story doesn't expand on how the tiger came to be in the cage, so I would expand more on that. Also, expanding and changing why and who the hunter talks to before returning to the tiger would be best. I would keep the obliviousness and deceiving nature of the jackal however since that was a crucial component of the story.

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, link to online reading

   (Bugs Bunny, Source: Wiki Characters)

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins Part B

In Part B of the reading, the king and the goblin are still going at it with the riddles. Per usual, the king knows the answer to the riddle and the goblin is transported back to the tree. However, on the last riddle the king is stumped because he does not know the answer allowing him to take the body back to the monk. The goblin tells the king that the monk is rouge one and is using the king as a sacrifice to gain magical powers and become king of fairies. He tells the king to trick the monk into cutting his head off. I really enjoyed reading this unit because it entailed riddles that peaked my interest. I would change the riddles to moderns one instead because all of them are set in an older time period. Another possible outcome of my rendition would be to change the ending. Where the king tricks the goblin with a riddle of him own and this allows him to escape with the body back to the monk only to be tricked by the monk and used as a sacrifice. This would put a twist to the ending because we all expected the king to survive since he was doing such a kind and selfless deed. 

                                  Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder, link to online reading

(Shiva, Source: Pinterest)

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins Part A

The story "Twenty-Two Goblins" is a very interesting read. I've always been a fan of riddles and it always excites me to read them and solve them. This story has a story predicament, in that, the goblin inside the dead corpse goes back to the tree every time the king figures out the riddle. This means that he has to go all the way back to the tree and retrieve the body all over again. Meaning that he's going in a circle over and over again. This is only Part A of the reading, but I would like to change the story and have the king be very clever and after many riddles from the goblin have him trick the goblin with his own riddle. His ultimatum would be that if the goblin can't figure out the answer to the riddle then he'd have to leave the body, so that the king may bring it back to the monk named, Patience. A different aspect of the story would be the riddles themselves. These riddles that the goblin tells seem very out of date, so I would like to replace them with modern day riddles that are more relevant to the present.

Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder, link to online reading

(Goblin, Source: Deviant Art)

Reading Notes: The Odyssey Part B

In this section of stories from The Odyssey, Odysseus meets various heroes, comrades, enemies, demigods, and so forth in the House of Hades. He summons the ghosts of many people so that he may get in touch with Teiresias who gives him the prophet about his journey back home to his wife and children. He also meets his mother, who died of sorrow, and asked of his family back home. In the end he returns back to Circe's island and she tells them to beware the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis. She tells them that to avoid the sirens they must cover their ears with wax to avoid their call. They do so and succumb to the horrors of Scylla and the oceans swallow of Charybdis. In my rendition of this latter half I would put a twist on the ghosts that Odysseus sees. Instead of his mother he would see his wife instead. She would have died by the hands of a suitor. This suitor would have committed the murder in jealousy and revenge, leaving the child to be an orphan. Lastly I would change how Odysseus listens to the Sirens singing tied down to the raft. He would succumb to their song and escape from the ship. His comrades would have an adventure trying to save him from the Sirens, let alone Scylla and Charybdis.

The Odyssey by Homer, link to reading online

(Scylla and Charybdis, Source: TV Tropes)