mermaids were saviors and sirens were temptresses. One was a fish and one was a bird. Later their features became confused—

The Siren moves gracefully and unhurriedly. The proper gestures, movement, and demeanor for a Siren are like the proper voice: they hint at something exciting, stirring desire without being obvious. Your air must be languorous, as if you had all the time in the world for love and pleasure. Your gestures must have a certain ambiguity, suggesting som

There are lots of different strains of witches in literature, from the hag (Macbeth’s Weird Sisters) to the foreign witch (Sycorax and Medea) to Circe’s own type, the sexy witch. But they all have one thing in common: they are women with more power than other people—men especially—think they should have.