Book 1 of an Is It Love? story of a young woman with a dark secret. When that tragic incident occurred she made a choice to run away from home for good. In doing so, it brought her to a small town called Mystery Spell where she met the Bartholys and...
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Some of the images were of paintings, some were photographs of artifacts and statues in museums. The professor began speaking again by saying, "Some authors stated the count of sirens were from two to five, but later on, writers mentioned both the number of sirens there were and their names. Here are a few of those names: Peisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia or Parthenope, Ligeia, and Leucosia. Other writers give their names as Thelxinoe, Molpe, and Aglaophonos or Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, and Ligeia.
"They were 'eye pleasing' and had lambent voices. The name is said to be connected to these words here: σειρά (seirá or rope,cord) and ειρω (eírō or to tie, join, fasten), resulting in the meaning 'binder, entangler.' For example, one who binds or entangles through magical song. Originally, sirens were shown as male or female, but the male siren disappeared from art some time in the fifth century BC. Later sirens were depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive."
One of the guy students close to the front made a cat call whistle out loud, which stirred some laughs from classmates. "Okay, that's enough. Let us continue," the professor said as he clicked the button on the remote he held in his hand to move on to the next slide. "Found in his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, 'The siren sings so sweetly that she lulls the mariners to sleep; then she climbs upon the ships and kills the sleeping mariners.' In 1917, Franz Kafta wrote in The Silence of the Sirens, 'Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.'
