The Sound of Sirens

[Crumbling stone siren - from the Imperial mother's garden, Kinross 2011]

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"But listen while I tell you what follows - and the gods themselves will see that my words keep fresh in your mind. Your next encounter will be with the Sirens, who bewitch everybody that approaches them. There is no home-coming for the man who draws near them unawares and hears the Siren's voices; no welcome from his wife, no little children brightening at their father's return. For with the music of their song the Sirens cast their spell upon him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the mouldering skeletons of men, who's withered skin still hangs upon their bones." 

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Warning of the Goddess Circe to Odysseus. [Homer, The Odyssey, XII]