Selkie
October 12, 2009According to Scottish folklore, a selkie is a creature able to switch between human and seal form – they do this by the wearing of or removal of a seal skin. Quite often, these were beautiful women, and with their soft brown hair and seal-cow eyes it was not unheard of for a human man to fall in love with a selkie and marry her. These marriages would start off happily enough, but sooner or later the sea would call to her and she would yearn to return to the world of the seals. The only way to stop his wife abandoning him for the ocean was to steal her seal skin and hide it.
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