Siren
The siren denotes song that lures a traveller fatally off course, answering an unlived longing and obliterating the memory of where one meant to go.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Spirit World / Mythical Beings
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Brazilian folklore (1)
- Same group
- AngelCyclops/GiantDragonFuriesMermaid and 3 more
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Iara is Brazilian folklore
why
In Brazilian folklore, Iara is an Amazonian river siren, often described as half-woman and half-fish, who lures fishermen with her singing voice and drags them beneath the water to their death.