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...still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean [[Lerna]] in the Argolid. ...ated their childish locks to the local naiad of the spring. In places like Lerna their waters' ritual cleansings were credited with magical medical properti

...ers could paint and poisonous breath (Gaius Julius Hyginus). The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as one of his The Twelve Labours. ...that the sacred site was older even than the Mycenaean city of Argos, for Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids. Beneath the waters was an entrance

...elentless and strong. And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure w