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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.
Petrifaction, or petrification, defined as turning people into solid stone, is a common theme in folklore and mythology, as well as in some works of modern literature. Amos Brown noted that "Fossils are to be found all over the world, a clear evidence to human beings from earliest times that living beings can indeed turn into stone ...
Little People – various fairy/elf-like beings believed in across North America. Some are a couple inches tall and look like humans, some a couple feet and are hairy or look ugly, some take the form of human children. Different types can be mischievous, evil or beneficial. Mesingw – (Algonquian) Lenape name for the spirit of the forests.
Siren falls in love with Miguel, to which she tries to place him under a curse by having sex with him, after rescuing him from drowning. But her curse is seized by Kay and Fox, leading Endora to turn her into a doll and place her into a fishtank. Pokémon: 1997–present
As Ares and Hermes decided to turn all of Polyphonte's household into birds, the female servant asked the gods to turn her into a good omen for mankind, so Ares and Hermes chose the woodpecker for her. Procne/Aëdon ("nightingale") Nightingale: The gods The Athenian princess Procne was married to Tereus, who was a king of Thrace.
Angela Carter first did this in 1979 with The Bloody Chamber, a powerfully savage collection that morphs delicate Beauty into a beastly tigress. Rather than merely mocking the conventions upheld by sedate, waif-like princesses, she kept the appealing structures of popular fairy tales in place, filling them in with uncensored human subjects.
In fact, the Los Angeles resident has undergone so many procedures that he's known as "the Human Ken Doll." Although some may call Jedlica's fixation extreme, he views it merely as a way to ...
Merfolk, Mercreatures, Mermen or Merpeople are legendary water-dwelling, human-like beings. They are attested in folklore and mythology throughout the ages in various parts of the world. Merfolk, Merpeople, or simply Mer refers to humanoid creatures that live in deep waters like Mermaids, Sirens, Cecaelia etc.