Fortunately, Orpheus managed to silence them by playing an even more beautiful song with his lyre. The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts also involved an encounter with the Sirens. But his men had their ears covered and thus heard none of his pleas, allowing Odysseus to travel past the Sirens and survive. When the ship passed close to the Sirens' island, he desperately begged his men to untie him, wishing to follow the beautiful voices. Perhaps the most notable encounter with Sirens in documented history is that of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey, who ordered his crew to protect their ears with beeswax and tie him to his ship's mast, for he wanted to hear the Sirens singing. However, in earlier myth they were not necessarily sea-dwelling and could also be associated with meadows, rather than sea islands. Traditionally, the Sirens were typically associated with a specific island, or, according to Roman authors like Ovid, a formation of three small rocky islands called the Sirenum scopuli, off the coast of Italy. Nowadays, Sirens are most often found in the sea, usually in rocky islands and shores. The idea of female water beings who lure people to death with their beauty and/or hypnotic singing is present in numerous cultures and can be associated with creatures such as Hulders, Mermaids, Morgens, Nixies, Rusalkas and Xanas.

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