Selkie mythology

But first, let me take a selkie

'Faeries, come take me out of this dull world | For I would ride with you upon the wind | Run on the top of the dishevelled tide | And dance upon the mountains like a flame.' - William Butler Yeats, 'The Land of Heart's Desire,' 1894. In the modern world, it can be easy to forget about the infinite possibilities hiding in the cracks of our imagination. Where technology, logic and science are predominant rulers, the world can seem a faraway cry from that of our ancestors, believing in the…

In Norse and Celtic mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or selkie folk meaning "seal folk" are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. In Orkney lore, selkie is said to denote various seals of greater size than the grey seal; only these large seals are credited with the ability to shapeshift into humans, and are called "selkie folk". The type of large seals that might have been seen on the islands include…

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Selkies

Selkies are known in Scottish, Icelandic, and Faroese folklore, and are creatures who can take either a human or a seal form. Tales of selkies are often tragic love stories where the selkie is kept in captivity in human form, or where they cannot return to land back to their lover.