Creature

Name: Sirena

Alternate Name: Siren

Source: classical

Nature: mythical

Gender: female

Description: In antiquity sirens were sea-nymphs with the face and voice of a woman and the body of a bird, whose alluring singing lured sailors to destruction on rocks in the open sea. Dante's siren is a sallow stammering misshapen woman.

Images:

Priamo della Quercia

Yates Thompson 36, Siren