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{{quote|''And you sang, "Sail to me, sail to me,''
''Let me enfold you,''
''Here I am, here I am''
''Waiting to hold you"''
|'''Tim Buckley'''|"Song to the Siren" (later [[Covered Up]] by [[This Mortal Coil]])}}
Sirens have [[Compelling Voice|enthralling voices]], ranging from just very attractive when you've been out at sea for some time to a form of [[Glamour]] or out and out [[Mind Control]]. They are at least humanoid, though the lower half is flexible. They lure someone to their doom, though not ''necessarily'' immediate death. In [[Classical Mythology]], sirens were bird-women, split about the same as a [[Our Centaurs Are Different|centaur]]; in most modern depictions of sirens, the bird characteristics will be dropped and they'll be just beautiful women with beautiful voices, if they aren't [[Sirens Are Mermaids|mermaids]]. In some versions their powers only work on men.
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== Classical Mythology ==▼
* [[Odyssey|Odysseus]] ran into two sirens, who were bird-women who lured sailors with their enchanting voices and music. His men stuff their ears with wax, but, [[Fatal Flaw|true to]] [[Pride|form]], Odysseus just has them tie him to the mast. Because he wants to hear the songs and be able to say that [[Badass Boast|he's the only man to have heard the song and lived.]]▼
* In general (Greek): They were bird-women, they lured young sailors to their deaths via song that took them into rocky cliffs, there were between two and five, though [[Rule of Three|three was common]]. Their names were a little... [[Transliteration Trouble|fluid]].▼
* In ''The [[Argonautica]]'', the Argonauts also run into the Sirens. They survive thanks to [[Spoony Bard|Orpheus]] who sang an even more beautiful song that drowned out their call.▼
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' have a villain called Siren who is a mermaid with a hypnotic song and is capable of turning her tail into legs.
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* In ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Sirens are actually a man-eating descendant of the Phorusrhacos that use mimicry to fool drunken sailors into getting close enough to eat. [[Polly Wants a Microphone|Like many birds, they can imitate human voices]] and they have markings on their beaks that look like human faces, plumage like flowing, blonde hair and ornamentation on their chests resembling a woman's breasts.
== Fan
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2913531/1/Erik_the_Vampire_Hunter_The_Continuing_Adventures Erik: The Vampire Hunter-The Continuing Adventures]'' starts out with sirens, then finds out why they're out here, and then [[It Got Worse|it all goes downhill]].
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* In Cat Adams's ''Blood Singer'' series the sirens are human-looking semi-immortal women with telepathic abilities that let them control heterosexual men and also have a strong affinity for the ocean and aquatic creatures. It is stated that when calling out to males, some sirens focus their summons through music, but most use telepathy.
== Live
* The Psirens from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' were basically a retelling of the sirens story {{
* On the 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series, Joan Collins played the Supervillainess Lorelei Circe, <small>AKA</small> The Siren, who was able to put any man under her spell by singing a note of three octaves above high C; she used her ability to entrance Commissioner Gordon into sneaking into the Batcave, to cause Chief O'Hara to jump into a lake, and to induce Bruce Wayne into signing his fortune over to her.
* One episode of ''[[So Weird]]'' dealt with a siren who looked like [[Jewel Staite]] and sang in a nightclub. Any man who heard her fell under her spell, while women thought her voice was pleasant but couldn't understand the fuss all the men were making over her.
* The episode "Sirens" of ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'' has the sirens as beautiful women with songs that draw in and possibly mind-control men- who promptly start trying to impress them with lies about being rich and fit- but sound like screeching to women. They imprison men and feed them up before eating them. The sirens also seem to have glamour; when they turn it off, they are still beautiful but have fangs and claws.
* The ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "Siren Song" features a Siren as the Demon of the Week. According to the Book of Shadows she was a mortal woman who seduced a married man but was burned alive by the townspeople. Now she hypnotises married men with her song, which lures the wives to the scene of the crime where she burns them both alive.
* ''[[
== Music ==
* [[Iamamiwhoami]]'s entire [[Concept Video|premise]] is built around the concept of the siren song of a mandrake or mandragora. The title of preview video "13.1.14.4.18.1.7.15.18.1.1110" decodes to "mandragora", and the enchanting song aspect is most prominently in "b", "u-1", and "u-2".
== Oral Tradition, Myths and Legends ==
▲** [[Odyssey|Odysseus]] ran into two sirens, who were bird-women who lured sailors with their enchanting voices and music. His men stuff their ears with wax, but, [[Fatal Flaw|true to]] [[Pride|form]], Odysseus just has them tie him to the mast. Because he wants to hear the songs and be able to say that [[Badass Boast|he's the only man to have heard the song and lived.]]
▲** In general (Greek): They were bird-women, they lured young sailors to their deaths via song that took them into rocky cliffs, there were between two and five, though [[Rule of Three|three was common]]. Their names were a little... [[Transliteration Trouble|fluid]].
▲** In ''The [[Argonautica]]'', the Argonauts also run into the Sirens. They survive thanks to [[Spoony Bard|Orpheus]] who sang an even more beautiful song that drowned out their call.
== Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (video game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** The harpy is the [[Greek Mythology]] [[wikipedia:Harpy|version]] (bird/woman) with an alluring voice that draws victims to its location.
** The sirine is a humanoid female with a voice that can charm all hostile creatures.
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== Theatre ==
* ''[[The Golden Apple]]'', another loose Americanization of ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', represents the sirens as a group of singers in a waterfront dive who sing "Goona-Goona." In this tale, Ulysses doesn't think to plug his men's ears, and most of them end up shanghaied.
== Video Games ==
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You gotta go back--that's how we play"'' }}
* In an episode of ''[[Lloyd in Space]]'' there was an exchange student from the centre of the universe named Sirenia who was able to hypnotise all the boys, though with her eyes instead of her voice. The only way to break the spell was to {{spoiler|get a boy from the same place to hypnotise her}}.
* The Music Meister in ''[[Batman: The
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