mermaids who, when found by a man, will charm him with her voice and beauty and either drown him, or turn him into something like her and make him her lover. La Llorona ("the crier"), who is found in Mexico and the Southwest United States, is a female ghost who will kidnap the souls of children, effectively killing them, and whose cries bring irrevocable sorrow. Sighting La Llorona spells death for someone within the week. While all these spirits will lure away and/or hurt others, they also have various physical oddities. The Deer Woman has hooves. Sirens are bird from the chest down. Succubi were originally portrayed as hideous and demonic. La Patasola has no right leg from the pelvis down and her right breast is fused to her arm. In popular culture The Deer Woman was featured as a character in an eponymous episode of the Showtime horror series Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 9, 2005, and was directed by John Landis. The Monster High series introduced the character Isi Dawndancer in 2015. The character is inspired by the Deer Woman myth; her name, Isi, means deer in the Choctaw language. In 2015, Anishinaabe writer Elizabeth LaPensée wrote Deer Woman: A Vignette. In 2019, Rebecca Roanhorse wrote the short story "Harvest" in the New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color anthology, which features a seductive Deer Woman harvesting hearts in the name of justice. In 2019, Carmen Maria Machado and Dani included Deer Woman in their horror comic The Low, Low Woods. Published by DC Black Label and Hill House Comics. In 2020, Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones published The Only Good Indians, which features a vengeful Deer Woman. In 2021 and 2022, the Deer Lady, portrayed by Kaniehtiio Horn, is a recurring character on Reservation Dogs on Hulu. A "badass vigilante who only goes after 'bad men'" she has an ongoing, even lifelong, relationship with several characters in the community portrayed in the show, intervening in their lives in times of crisis. She appears in S1 Ep5, “Come and Get Your Love” and S2 Ep8, "This is Where the Plot Thickens". References External links ‘Deer Woman: An Anthology’ Sheds Light on Violence Against Native Women in North America Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America Iroquois legendary creatures Cherokee legendary creatures Ojibwe legendary creatures Mythological human hybrids Mythological