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The Siren goes by many names, from Disney’s Little Mermaid to La Siren in Haitian vodou to Mami Wata, the mermaid goddess of wealth floating through mythology across Central and Western Africa.
![Wood torso of a female with upraised arm holding one snake in her proper right hand, draped over her shoulders with the tail paralleling her proper left arm. A second snake circles her waist with its head under the woman's chin. The hair is made of raffia and the face and arms are painted pink with a blue blouse and a white belt. The snakes are black with small white spots and larger yellow spots.](https://carnivalartsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/d6395-mami-wata-smithsonian.png?w=853&h=1024)
Carnival Art has it’s own avatar of La Siren, the Super Wind-y Hair Girl. She was invented by a young artist in the first ever workshop in what would become Carnival Arts: a superhero monologue workshop. The Super Wind-y Hair Girl had super wind-y hair, of course. She could use her locks to fly and even used them as a weapon, like that time when her friend was being attacked by a giant spider and she had to use her hair to fight him off.
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![Carnival Arts procession boat bears in Super Wind-y Hair girl masks with Naomi Campbell mannequin](https://carnivalartsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/cb940-boatbearersbefore.jpg?w=1024&h=713)