"SIRENS were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island."
They were irresistible. If you heard them you were doomed.
Sirens were originally depicted as half-bird, because birds have beautiful voices with which to lure people to their demises. Obviously. In the Odyssey, where sirens make their first appearances, Homer doesn’t mention whether they’re male or female, or even what they look like, but we can tell what the common idea of what a siren was thought to look like from ancient pottery.
Early Corinthian vases were painted with both male and female sirens, but all depictions of sirens turned female by the fifth century BCE.
Walt O'Reagun 