Heracles and the Birds of Lake Stymphalia
When Heracles was sent to deal with the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia, he found he could not approach their nests because of marshy ground, nor shoot them down because of the thick woods. However, Athene was on hand to lend him a set of noisy castanets, which Heracles used to scare the birds into abandoning their lakeside colony for ever.
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