Talk:Selkie

message: I would like to know if anyone knows how the children of a selkie and a human cross woulld look llike or even how and when they transform to their selkie form? If you know anything i would like t know i would like to write a fantasy story about this subject if anyone can sujest a good book on the subject. Please contact me at aggieboy9@aol.com
:: apparently they are human, however they might also be able to become selkies themselves. The story teller, Duncan Williamson has some stories which cover this (79.190.69.142 (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  The traditional song "The Maiden and the Selkie" a.k.a "The Selkie's bride" or "the selkie and the fisherman's daughter" considers an apparently human woman who wants to marry a selkie, but is unable to return to the sea with him and knows he cannot bear to be on land for long.  The couple visit her grandmother - a wisewoman who lives by the sea - who says she can't help but that her mother had had a sealskin coat that she buried beneath a tree and had told her that anyone who put it on would become a selkie.  Once the girl found this coat, dug it up and wore it she became a selkie woman and was able to marry her love.  This would imply that the girl's great grandmother had been a selkie herself and had surrendered her shifting ability to marry on land.  That aside, many selkie legends end with some half-breed children left on land (usually when their selkie mother returns to sea) and implies they were absorbed into the general population.  62.196.17.194 (talk) 10:43, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: it's not traditional - according to Heather Dale's website . It's one of "14 new songs inspired by the Middle Ages and Renaissance". Richerman   (talk) 16:45, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Old

message: Are these the same mythological creatures known also as Roane?  If so, perhaps the article should mention it? --Bardcom (talk) 09:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, afaik, it would be nice to have a ref ClemMcGann (talk) 12:37, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

text: Yes, I believe we should.  Numerous sources discuss the Celtic seal people and it's just two words for the same thing.  I can't find any sources that say they're different - have you found any?  --HighKing (talk) 21:38, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's just shoddy anglo spelling of Gaelic ròn, meaning a seal. Akerbeltz (talk) 11:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roane 

message: There is a well known song "The Selkie of Sule Skerry. Also, the Scottish storyteller Duncan Williamson wrote a number of books with selkie stories in them (79.190.69.142 (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Songs and Literature

message: Do the pop culture lists add anything? Or should they be removed? -134.48.112.66 (talk) 19:21, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silly-long lists 

message: I have several fairytale and folklore paperbacks at home, and find this same theme of an animal shedding its pelt and becoming a human, usually a female, in Inuit, Siberic and Japanese folklore. So I guess this theme is way older than for instance the Armada, as the article states. Anyone with more knowledge about this??--Satrughna (talk) 22:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Donning and doffing of an animal skin was a fairly traditional method of shapeshifting - various forms were identified, not least the loup-garou type of werewolf which transformed in this manner. 62.196.17.194 (talk) 10:37, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traditional Shamanic themes. 

message: In Húsdrápa, there's a section where the gods Heimdallr and Loki fight a ferocious battle in the shape of seals. Heimdallr is a vanr, and Loki is part jötunn, and these races are usually depicted as being closer to magic powers than the æsir. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 13:38, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Norse mythology

message: There's a lovely Irish film "Song of the Sea" (2014) which features and celebrates selkie folklore. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/?ref_=nv_sr_1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.32.98.255 (talk) 00:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Song of the Sea (animated film)

message: Ancient peoples of Scotland believed they existed, while today we can't confirm their existence without actual evidence of a Selkie presence. The Selkies lived in northern parts of Scotland, the Orkney and Shetland islands, maybe the Faroe Islands, and were "spotted" in Denmark, the Low countries (Netherlands), northwest Germany, and Scandinavia (Norway's coast). There were non-Indo European peoples in Great Britain and Ireland before the arrival of Indo-Europeans like the Celts as legends, mythology and folklore of these peoples are evidently reported. 12.218.47.124 (talk) 20:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Selkies: real or myth?

message: At the end of the section "Faroese legends", there is this paragraph:
:Peter Kagan and the Wind by Gordon Bok tells of the fisherman Kagan who married a seal-woman. Against his wife's wishes he set sail dangerously late in the year, and was trapped battling a terrible storm, unable to return home. His wife shifted to her seal form and saved him, even though this meant she could never return to her human body and hence her happy home.
At best, it fails to make it clear why it is in that place; I suppose it is in fact misplaced. It might fit in the sections "Modern treatments" or "In popular culture". Also, it fails to make clear what the title refers to - novel, short story, song, album, webpage, all of the above?--Nø (talk) 13:39, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Kagan