In society today many people merely look at the scientific definitions to explain common phenomenon's that occur all around at all times of the day. However, long before science was used to explain everything, people from ancient cultures created stories and tales to explain what or who caused the events to occur. In classic mythology everything that occurred, from the weather to the food supplies, was created or completed by the God's. Yet when science came up with scientific explanations to help understand how the weather worked and how food was grown many people began to discount the classic mythological theories. However when one looks into all explanations for anything in the world many different reasons behind it come out. The definitions for the word 'echo' in the dictionary are "a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener", which also is the scientific explanation as to how echoes occur, or "to repeat" (Oxford 281). But when echoes are examined in terms of mythology and legend many different stories come out, yet they all have a common denominator. In this essay three tales of how echoes were created will be compared and analyzed in order to determine whether these tales could be related to one another.
             "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Everybody has heard this phrase from time to time but what about the scorned women who do not become vengeful. In mythology, both classic and native, there are plenty of vengeful characters however the Roman Mythological tale of 'Echo and Narcissus' focuses on the story of a scorned women who rather than becoming vengeful converted into echoes (Bulfinch 75). In this myth Echo was a "beautiful nymph" who was fond of talking and always had to have the last word (Bulfinch 74). One day Juno was in the woods looking for her husband, who she thought was cheating on her wi...