Sirens are a trio of sisters in Greek mythology, two immortal and one mortal (Medusa). Who had living venomous snakes for their hair, turning those who viewed their visage into stone.
They first appeared in Marvel Comics in U.S.A. Comics #6 (December, 1942), written and penciled by Syd Shores and Al Avison.
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The Gorgons are a mystical race that descends from the Elder God Set. Sired by Set's son Phorcys who mated with the sea monster Ceto. They have green-skinned serpentine bodies, a feminine humanoid face, two mammary glands (breasts), snakes for hair, and fangs. Some of them have a green-skinned humanoid body with snakes for hair.
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- In Witches and Other Night-Fears, Charles Lamb mentioned the Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimaeras, as "dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies". The excerpt is quoted as a preface in "The Dunwich Horror" (HPL).
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