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Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl), borrowed from the siren of the Greek mythology. According to myth, the Sirin lived in Iriy or around the Euphrates River.
The Sirena is a mythological sea creature from Filipino culture.Popular in folklore in many regions of the Philippines.In Philippine mythology, the Sirena is a mythological aquatic creature with the head and torso of a human female from waist down and the tail of a fish. [1]
Ligeia, one of the Sirens. She was the daughter of the river-god Achelous and the Muse Melpomene [4] or her sister Terpsichore. [5] Ligeia's sisters were Parthenope and Leucosia [6] or Thelxipeia and Peisinoe. [7] She was found ashore of Terina in Bruttium (modern Calabria). [8]
Pisinoe, also called Peisithoe (Πεισιθόη), one of the Sirens. She was attested as a daughter of the river-god Achelous and the Muse Melpomene [1] [2] or Sterope, daughter of King Porthaon of Calydon. [3] She may have two sisters, variously named as Thelxiepeia [1] [2] [4] [5] and Aglaope [1] [4] or Molpe [2] or Ligea. [5]
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC The etymology of the name is contested. Robert S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin. [5] Others connect the name to σειρά (seirá, "rope, cord") and εἴρω (eírō, "to tie, join, fasten"), resulting in the meaning "binder, entangler", [6] [better source needed] i.e. one who binds or entangles through magic song.
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The earliest text describing the siren as fish-tailed occurs in the Liber Monstrorum de diversis generibus (seventh to mid-eighth century), which described sirens as "sea girls" (marinae pullae) whose beauty in form and sweet song allure seafarers, but beneath the human head and torso, have the scaly tail-end of a fish with which they can ...
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.