HERCULES, DEIANIRA, NESSUS: The evil satyr tricks poor D into believing her husband is cheating but as he takes her across the river, Hercules shoots him, and his dying breath is to give a shirt of "magic."
HERCULES & DEIANIRA: The poor girl thinks she is giving a love spell and instead the shirt of flame burns chunks of flesh and cannot be taken off.
ALCMENA: Hercules' mother tells her granddaughter the story of his delivery and how Juno had not been successful with her attempt to prevent the birth and had taken her anger out on a poor maiden.
DRYOPE: The granddaughter tells of her poor sister who ate berries off the wrong tree and was turned into a tree herself.
IOLAUS: Hercule's nephew was given the gift of rejuvenation and all the other gods and goddesses wanted it for their children as well.
BYBLIS & CAUNUS: A sister falls madly in love with her brother and goes too crazy to function so is made into an eternal fountain.
IPHIS & IANTHE: A baby's sex is hidden so as not to be killed and on the eve of the wedding, she is changed from a girl to a man to wed his bride.
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