Eirēn Before Sirens

The Eirēn sisters lived at the edge of the village and were said to be one of the most beautiful ladies on the island. Although they lost their parents at young age, they managed to survive and grew to be independent women in the village. It was a fishing village, so by that they became fisherwomen. Local market folks mostly purchased from them cause of their low prices, quality of their fishes and the quantity as well.

The two sisters weren’t married or had children so most of their time was spilt between their fishing activities and the market side. A couple of the other fishermen hate how low the Eirēn sisters price their fishes. If they continued with such prices, all the market folks would leave them and start buying from the sisters and they just can’t let that happen. A few of them planned to ambush the sisters at sea and later tell the rest of the villagers that the sisters were actually sea creatures who enchanted the fishes they sell to them. 

At dawn while the Eirēn sisters were pulling in their nets, the other fishermen surrounded them with their boats and began to attack them violently. Unfortunately the sisters were also armed, so they managed to kill two of the fishermen. But sadly the sisters were outnumbered and killed in the attack. The remaining fishermen threw the bodies of the Eirēn sisters into the sea and took their catch. They returned to the village with the dead bodies of the other fishermen and spread lies saying the sisters were actually evil mermaids who attacked them after they uncovered their secret. Thus, the villages changed the names of the Eirēn sisters to the Sirens.