Creating a Siren song
Many myths have creatures like sirens who can use their voices to lure men to their deaths.
But is there any way a creature could exist in the real world that had that power? I don't just mean fooling animals by using scent or color to lure them in, I mean actually causing humans to approach without defending themselves.
The easiest thing to explain would be if the creature was able to lure unsuspecting humans into an ambush, the more varied and powerful the effect the better though. Ideally one of these sirens would be able to literally stop a fight and have everyone in it mindlessly approach the siren instead. I think that's unlikely but the goal is to get as close to that as possible.
This ability does not have to be gender specific, if it targeted all humans or even all animals that would be fine. Equally if it is gender or human specific that's also fine.
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So you know how sometimes songs get stuck in your head for hours, even if you've only heard a small snippet?
That's because some music creates patterns that resonance with our minds, and once started that pattern just bounces around in a loop.
A Siren is a creature that has a natural affinity for music, and can make musical patterns that are so in sync with brain activity that they shut down the higher reasoning centers, affecting the motor cortex directly.
By changing the pattern a Siren can cause an individual person to follow complex commands, or can cause a group of people to follow simple commands like "follow me", or "put down what you're holding", or "chill out".
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