The rock that projects from Leukas into the open sea is called The Leap. Wings and birds are attached to the leaping person and sometimes many rescuers would be gathered in the waters directly below. Leuke - white. The Rock was called The Leap and was white in colour. Menandros documented the location and there were many scenarios and tales about it. When the falling person had been saved the boatmen would make sure the leaper would be able to escape across the border to another state. The Leap is believed to end the longings of love.
Menandros thus says that the poet and songstress Sappho was one of the first people to leap off The Leap. Kephalos was said to be the very first. Those more knowledgeable in antiquarianism acknowledge this as being the truth and that it was indeed Kephalos. Anyway the ancestral custom among the people was to sometimes throw a miscreant off the leap every now and then as a sacrifice to rid them of evil.
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