Sirens

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 * name= Sirens
 * real name= Wicked Singers
 * species= Water Nymphs and Mermaids
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 * parents= Achelous and Circe}
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 * first appearance= Ulysses and the Journey Home
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The Sirens were magical ,seductive water nymphs.The sirens were the bane of sailors and were feared by all people at sea.They used their beautiful voices to enchant sailors and make them crash their ships on the rocks.

Physical Apearence
The sirens were beautiful, glowing mermaids with striped tails and dolphin-like fins. Many of the sirens have golden hair, green skin and yellow scales. Other sirens have pale pink scales, yellow and dark pink skin and ginger hair.

Powers and Abilities
The sirens were greatly feared for their magical voices. The song of the sirens has the power to put all men under their control. Their singing makes humans jump into the sea were they drown and it causes ships to sail on to the sharp rocks.

Sirens know everything about the world and those that listen to their voices and lives will become wiser. They can project images and create illusions. Because of their fish-like bodies, sirens can swim like the water nymphs.

The sirens are immortal and they can never die or suffer from sickness or disease.

Mythology
The sirens were the daughters of phorkys and keto. The sirens at first were beautiful women and were the handmaidens of persephone.When Hades took her to the underworld, the sirens did nothing to help her.In anger demeter transformed them into birds with human heads.The sirens would sit on the rocks and lured sailors onto the rocks to die.One day they challenged the muses to a singing contest.The sirens won but the muses tore the wings off the sirens and made them into crowns.In grief the sirens fell into the sea.Some were turned into rocks but the others lost their bird-like appearence and were transformed into mermaids.