Sirens

Greek The Nymphs whose sweet song lured sailors to destruction by making them go mad and therefore become shipwrecked on the coast where the Sirens lived. In Homer's Odyssey, Circe warned the hero, Odysseus, about the Sirens. He plugged the ears of his crewmen with wax, then had himself tied to the mast of the ship, while the crew rowed out of danger. In the myth of the Argonauts, the sailors were able to sail safely by the nymphs because the poet Orpheus was on board and sang more sweetly than the Sirens.