Selkie story

The Seal People - Selkies Peppered throughout Irish, Scottish, Icelandic, and Scandinavian mythology and folklore are stories about seal people, also called selkies, silkies, selchies, or roane.

Find out the history behind the mysterious sea myth, the Selkie!

The selkies of Irish and Scottish folklore, as mentioned in songs by Frank Black and Tori Amos, are part of a larger tradition of shape-shifting animals marrying humans. The selkies are seal-people…

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We’ve always been suckers for good stories of the sea, and along with mermaids, selkies are pretty much the best. Ethereal creatures who take the form of seals in the ocean, but then transform into supernaturally beautiful humans while on land: they’ve inspired tales for centuries. Selkies stories tend to be romantic tragedies: female selkies […]

But first, let me take a selkie

A selkie

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Selkies can be male or female, and are a shape-shifting creature from mostly Celtic Mythology, but can be found in Norse, Icelandic, and Faroese myth. There are contradicting accounts regarding how often they can walk on land, with popular tales saying once every seven years, but as with all folk tales, there is no right or wrong way to tell these tales. The common denominator among selkie tales, though, is that they shed their seal-skin in order to walk on land. In some places where selkie…