abstract:Melinoë (Greek Μηλινόη) is a chthonic nymph invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns and propitiated as a bringer of nightmares and madness.Orphic Hymn 70 or 71 (numbering varies), as given by Richard Wünsch, Antikes Zaubergerät aus Pergamon (Berlin, 1905), p.