The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Lorelei

LORELEI, lō'rĕ-lī, or LURLEI, loor'lī, a rock on the right bank of the Rhine, near Saint Goar, about 425 feet above the river, through which a tunnel has been bored. Once a serious menace to passengers on the river and always famed for its echo, the rock has been personified by German poets, notably Heine, as a siren, luring sailors to destruction by the music of her voice, an evident idealization of the danger of the rock and of its echo.