Charybdis herself must have spat them into the sea. They committed "a Crime so odious and horrid in all it Circumstances, that those who have treated on the Subject have been at a loss for Words and Terms to stamp a sufficient Ignominy upon it." Their contemporaries called them "Sea-monsters," "Hell-Hounds," and "Robbers, Opposers and Violators of all Laws, Humane and Divine." some believed they were "Devils incarnate." Others suspected they were "Children of the Wicked One" himself. "Danger lurked in their very Smiles."
-Peter T. Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
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