Siren

Three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses, Sailors who sailed near were compelled by the Sirens' enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast. When the Sirens were given a parentage they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon, the Earth, in Euripides' Helen, where Helen in her anguish calls upon "Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth". Although they lured mariners. Sirens are composed of women and of birds, in various ways.sirens were represented as birds with large women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Also represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps.