“Killing me softly…” Sirens enticing songs belie their evil nature. Legends portrait Sirens have the head of a beautiful woman on the body of an eagle. Unlike harpy she has no arms, breast or other human characteristic. For the purposes of attack she relies on her sharp talons and her songs. Greek sources refer to sirens as very long-lived creatures. They lived in small, rocky islands with reefs and shoals which can break up any ships that they attract. Their songs are irresistibly enticing that have entered our language as the epitome of fatal seductivity. Once the half-drowned mariners wash up on shore they are attacked. Some sources said that the voices of the sirens sound like flutes, their power derivates from the songs’ complexity and intricate melodies. Homer suggests that the attractiveness of their song lies in the knowledge which they offer: the promise of exotic delights and unearthly pleasures.

Mermaids have been related to Sirens and Harpies, describe as beautiful and alluring beings that can bridge the gap between man and nature. They are known by different names, in the Scottish Highlands they are called “maiden of the wave”; in Ireland, merrow, or merucha; in Scandinavia havmand and in Melanesia, adaro. Mermaids are also known with an uneasy mix of folklore and fact, superstition and science. Mermaids’ beautiful, alluring human above the waist body, and silvery-scale fish below, calls out from her ocean home, taunting mariners with her mastery of the seas, and tempting them with the promise of erotic and material pleasures. North American Indians tell of a merman who led their people across the ocean from Asia. Even Columbus reported seeing three mermaids (he called them “serenas”) off the coast of Haiti. He stated that they were “not as pretty as they were depicted”.

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