If you want to know more about Selkies, you might want to scroll to the bottom of the post and listen to the story I’ve shared with you today… but, in short, Selkies are from Celtic mythological, and are sea creatures that are half human and half seal, but they can never really be free of the call of the sea, no matter the human ties they may find on shore.
They are different from mermaids; where mermaids have the top half of a human body and the bottom half of a fish body, the Selkie is a seal, that can shed her seal skin (see the painting above) and become fully human, and then become a seal once more… Do you remember the short film Ocean Child, that I shared with you on Monday? That was all about the legend of the Selkie too!