Aug 2, 2023 Mythology

Weak Sirens

They sound pretty good, as long as a song is within a pretty specific two-octave range
You can definitely tell when they switch from chest voice to head voice, it's not a smooth transition
They live on an island meadow in the Tyrrhenian sea and the sound of their voices can lure a ship into veering as many as four nautical miles off-course
The sound of their voices can even lure a sailor into taking off his shoes
They are very nice-looking, with the upper bodies of human women and the lower bodies of human women also
Plus a few scales on their legs
They're nice scales, sort of silver-y and flash-y looking
One of them can play on the lyre a little but she has to stop and start over kind of a lot
Their "siren song" contains an appeal that anyone who stays to listen will learn one or two things they didn't know before
Once men hear their alluring song they often end up being several hours late
Some sailors have lived to tell the tale by not listening very carefully when they pass by the island of the Sirens
In their meadow there are several shoes left behind by sailors who were tempted into taking off their shoes and forgetting them when they went away again