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3 unusual facts about Selkie


Selkie

A young farmer from the town of Mikladalur on Kalsoy island goes to the beach to watch the selkies dance.

Scottish folklorist and antiquarian, David MacRitchie believed that early settlers in Scotland probably encountered, and even married, Finnish and Saami women who were misidentified as selkies because of their sealskin kayaks and clothing.

Peter Cagan and the Wind by Gordon Bok tells of the fisherman Cagan who married a seal-woman.


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