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In the Northern Isles they say the seals are not always seals. Selkies live in the sea in grey pelts, but on certain nights they slip the skin off and walk the shore as people, dancing in the moonlight. The skin is everything: whoever hides it holds its owner on land, and no hearth can hold her once she finds it again. Told in Orkney and Shetland, and along Irish and Faroese coasts, it is a tale of longing for home.
From The Deity Project, a living encyclopedia of the sacred.
