What would sirens do?

In Greek mythology, the sirens (Ancient Greek: singular: Σειρήν, Seirḗn; plural: Σειρῆνες, Seirênes) were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. It is also said that they can even charm the winds.
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What do Sirens do to humans?

Generally, they are depicted as beautiful women with the tails of fish, but they can also be shown as scary, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth for tearing apart humans. Sirens are known for luring in sailors with their enchanting songs and then killing them.
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How do Sirens kill you?

In Greek mythology, the sirens kill people by luring them towards the treacherous rocks where the sirens make their home.
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What are a Sirens powers?

Powers and Abilities

Sirens have a voice that is irresistible to men. They are able to vocally command males (excluding young children, seniors, and homosexuals) to do anything against their will. Sirens can make men fall under their "spell" by making skin-to-skin contact with them.
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Why do Sirens kill themselves?

(According to Argonautica, Butes alone was compelled by the Sirens' voices to jump into the water, but his life was saved by the goddess Cypris, a cult name for Aphrodite.) In Hyginus's Fabulae, no. 141, a mortal's ability to resist them causes the Sirens to commit suicide.
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What If The Sirens Were Real?



What happens if you kiss a siren?

Summary. Legends say that the pure gold blood of mermaids holds the secret to eternal beauty. The Evil Queen hunted down their kind to extinction in her effort to stay young forever. Many have fallen in their attempts to hunt the few that remained, for the kiss of a siren is poison to all she doesn't love.
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What does a siren eat?

Their principal diet is made up of aquatic insects and other invertebrates, which they catch at night. They mate in the water and lay eggs singly or in batches on the leaves of water plants.
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What magic do sirens have?

Powers and abilities

Shapeshifting – A siren can change its shape to appear human. It may seem to be either male or female, depending on how it chooses to approach a victim. Siren's song – The siren's song is transmitted through saliva, infecting their victims through a fluid transfer.
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How do you know if you're a siren?

Determine if you are a Goddess Siren.

The Goddess is regal and in charge. This siren prefers silence to chatter, despises group activities, and is unapologetically moody. The Goddess is aloof and demands to be waited on. Assert your magnificence with a strong posture—stand with your chin up and your back straight.
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What are sirens immune to?

Water Mimicry: When emerging completely out of a body of water, the Sirens can will themselves to transform their bodies completely into water resembling that of a normal human. When in their water forms, they are virtually immune to physical attacks.
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How are sirens born?

In some myths, they were created to be the playmates of young Persephone (daughter of Zeus, Goddess of Springtime), but were created into monsters by her mother Demeter after Hades abducted Persephone.
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Are sirens immortal?

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.
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Do sirens drink blood?

Both are truly immortal species with no known way to kill them. Both species possess the strongest psychic abilities known to exist (i.e. controlling the minds of humans en masse). Similarly, they both must consume either blood or flesh, respectively, to prevent desiccation.
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What happens when a siren dies?

Sirens are individuals who have acquired incredible, mysterious powers, and are physically distinguished by elaborate tattoos that cover half of their bodies. It is said that only six Sirens can exist at any given time, and when a Siren dies, their powers pass on to another individual.
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How do Sirens mate?

The males can attract potential mates by stretching and twisting their necks and produce a kind of bio-luminescence. Then the females bite on to their male mate's necks and smack them with their tails.
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Do I have siren eyes?

As some commenters have explained, 'doe eyes' appears to refer to when your eyes are open wider, and 'siren eyes' refers to when they look more narrow, with the doe expression giving a more 'innocent' look and the siren expression being more mysterious.
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Did sirens eat sailors?

The end of that song is death." That the sailors' flesh is rotting away, suggests it has not been eaten. It has been suggested that, with their feathers stolen, their divine nature kept them alive, but unable to provide food for their visitors, who starved to death by refusing to leave.
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What type of woman is a siren?

The Siren is of highly charged traditionally-feminine energy and tends to attract those of a completely opposite, traditionally-masculine energy. Whether or not you identify as male, female or neither, you'll tend to be attracted to a Siren when you show characters on the extremes of traditionally-male behaviour.
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What color eyes do sirens have?

Appearance. Sirens can change their appearance to their will. However, it is assumed their default eye color is green due to the lack of pigment in their eyes as Phirre described it. A human may be changed into a siren if one transfers their blood to them.
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Can sirens Shapeshift?

Like all known members of Labyrinthodontia, sirens are metamorphic, and change forms over the course of their lives. They are not therianthropes: they do not shapeshift, but rather, gradually and irreversibly transform.
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Do sirens lay eggs?

A female siren is said to lay her egg clutch over a period of a few days (rather than all in one go), a system which obviously makes it look as if the eggs have been fertilised internally and, ergo, that spermatophores are produced by males.
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Where do the Sirens live?

In Greek mythology, the sirens live on an island called Anthemoessa, located between Circe's Island Aeaea and the rock of Scylla (Circe is the...
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Who created the Sirens?

Sirens Family

Traditionally, the Sirens were daughters of the river god Achelous and a Muse; it depends on the source which one, but it was undoubtedly one of these three: Terpsichore, Melpomene, or Calliope.
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Are sirens evil?

A Siren is a type of sea-spirit from Greek mythology akin to the mermaid. However, unlike the relatively harmless merfolk, sirens were often depicted as deadly temptresses who would lure sailors towards rocky shores via their hypnotic singing, causing the sailors to crash into the rocks and meet with a watery demise.
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