Myths and Folklore
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The Police
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your 'tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your flesh to alabaster
When you will find your servant is your master
Ohhh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your 'tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your flesh to alabaster
When you will find your servant is your master
Ohhh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
MythsScyllaAccording to Greek Mythology, Scylla was a terrible sea monster who haunted one side of a narrow channel of water.
CharybdisCharybdis was also a sea monster who haunted the opposite side of the channel. She was said to originally be the beautiful daughter of Poseidon and Gaia who was turned into a monster that created whirlpools.
Between Charybdis and ScyllaThe idiom 'between Charybdis and Scylla' is an idiom synonymous with 'between a rock and a hard place.' It means to have to choose between two unfavorable options.
Pygmalion and GalateaAs myth has it, Pygmalion was a talented sculpture you fell in love with his artwork and prayed for her to come alive.
Moral of the StoryA moral the Ancient Greeks might want to be taken from this story would be to trust in and obey the gods. Pygmalion prayed to Aphrodite and she granted his wish. He followed her instructions and everything worked out for him.
| Folklore Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is a demon from the German Legend of Faust. When the scholar Faustus wagered his sole to the devil, Mephistopheles was the one who came to collect it for Satan.
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