Seal Woman Statue
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Seal Woman Statue
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Imagery-at- Work
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Scottish legend (Wikipedia)
Many of the folk-tales on selkie folk have been collected from the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland).
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 the Greenland seal(also known as the Harp Seal) and the crested seal(also known as the hooded seal). Something similar is stated in Shetland tradition, that the mermen and mermaids prefer to assume the shape of larger seals, referred to as "Haaf-fish".
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July 19th, 2019
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