Lizzy Burnam 🐞

Today I learned about harpies, which are my new favorite mythological creature.

Greco-Roman monsters, half-woman, half-vulture, the personification of storm winds. They would abduct and carry people to the underworld, torturing them along the way, leaving filth and foul smells in their wake.

If a person suddenly, mysteriously disappeared, they were said to have been “carried off by the harpies.”