Sirens. The sirens were merlike females that used their songs to draw sailors to the deaths. The most popular myth that features the sirens is The Odyssey in which Odessues stuff cotton in all his crew members ears except his own so that they would not be attracted by the sirens' song. A siren is a monster that is either a women of the water (mermaid) or a bird-like creature. These monsters would use their voice to put men into a trance of utter devotion and false love.
It was no one siren. There was a group of them, no individual names.
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The Sirens.
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Sirens were nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
Sirens were nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
In Greek mythology, sirens were creatures that lured sailors to their doom with their enchanting voices, causing ships to crash on the rocks. The sailors who heard the sirens' song were unable to resist its allure and would steer their ships towards the dangerous rocks, leading to shipwrecks and death.
The Sirens were three sea nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
You are confusing your female-associated monsters. Sirens were those mythological sea nymphs in Greek mythology that sang such songs that anyone who heard them had to approach, which caused the ships to sink and the sailors to drown, but they weren't "half-bird". Those were the Harpies.
In Greek mythology, sirens were described as creatures who lured sailors to destruction with their enchanting songs. They were said to be immortal, although their exact age was not specified in mythological sources.
She sang to the sailors and lured them in with their song.
When they sang they lured sailors to their deaths.
They were used by the Gods to show the weakness of man, ie they lured sailors to an untimely death on the rocks of the island they sang from.
The victim was lured into the trap.The clever tiger lured its prey to an area where it would struggle to escape.He lured me into a world of drugs and alcohol.