Femme fatale
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| Femme fatale | |
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| The siren, a femme fatale | |
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A femme fatale (French for "deadly woman") is a mysterious and seductive woman with irresistible charms that lure their lovers into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. Her ability to entrance and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, vampire, witch, or demon.
There are numerous examples of femme fatales in mythology and legends like Mohini, Lilith, Delilah, Salome and Jezebel, the Sirens, the Sphinx, Scylla, Aphrodite, Clytemnestra, Medea and Cleopatra.