THE SIRIN
The Sirin was a protective and good luck symbol for Russian peasants who carved variations of her image on their wooden houses. A Sirin is identified as a figure with the head, clothing and body of a woman but with the wings and tail of a bird. This figure holds a sprouting branch from the Tree of Life.
Frontal beam of a carved wooden house. Second half of the nineteenth century. Gorky region (Nizhni Novgorod), Russia. Image taken from Kruglova and is found in the Folk Art collection at Zagorsk, Russia.