oylmpians: moodboard: selkies (female) ↦ found in Faroese and Scottish mythology selkies (or si
oylmpians:moodboard: selkies (female)↦ found in Faroese and Scottish mythology selkies (or silkies) are seals who can take the human form when they take off their seal skin. If a man manages to steal the seal’s skin of a selkie, she cannot go back to the sea and becomes a wife to such man. According to folktales, marriages like that are happy, even though captured selkies are often seen sitting and gazing at the ocean longingly. The moment they are able to recover their skin (always by negligence of their husbands), they put it on and rush off into the sea, having said good-bye to their human children. -- source link
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