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Selkies and Wereseals
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Selkies (also known as silkies, selchies, and seal wives) are mythological creatures that are found in Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish folklore. Traditional selkies can become human by taking off their sealskins and return to seal form by putting the skin back on. Stories concerning selkies are often Shapeshifting Lover romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. Other times, similar to The Swan Maiden, the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing them from returning to seal form. A selkie can usually only make contact with one particular human for a short amount of time — seven years, at most, and often less — before they must return to the sea. In modern Speculative Fiction, the depiction of seal and sea lion shapeshifters varies. Some are called Selkies and correspond in varying degrees to traditional folklore. Others might be called wereseals. Sometimes seal shapeshifters incorporate features inspired by werebeast, sea witch, and werewolf lore. On rare occasions, the name Selkie will be applied to something other than a seal-shifter, however, it is still normally used for something water-related. For more information, see The Other Wiki Selkie article. May overlap with Sweet Seal. Related tropes include Our Mermaids Are Different, Our Werebeasts Are Different, Animorphism, Water Is Womanly. See also Unscaled Merfolk. Not to be confused with the Webcomic Selkie, or one of the races of the Final Fantasy subseries Crystal Chronicles. Or with selfies. |
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The Serpent's Shadow features a group of selkies in a cameo as benign water fey creatures. With their way of life endangered by social and technological progress, things were looking bleak for them; then Peter Scott helped ten young Selkie men acquire brides (by somehow finding ten honest, clean-hearted girls among the streetwalkers of London), as well as acting as an intermediary to build houses for the girls and ensure they're well-provided-for in mortal coin. In return, the Selkies provide Peter with concentrated magical power upon request. | |
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In Song of the Dolphin Boy, Finn learns that his mother, Sylvie, was a kind of selkie who could turn into a dolphin. According to Finn's father, most selkies are seal people, but a minority are dolphin people. Sylvie mysteriously vanished when Finn was two. She was caught in a fisherman's net while in dolphin form. Her husband tried to free her, but he was too late to save her life. Because of his selkie ancestry, Finn can swim through the ocean as quickly and easily as a dolphin. | |
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One of The Magic Treehouse books featured the two child protagonists meeting a selkie. Despite the protagonists being normal humans, they were allowed to transform into seals via sealskin as well. | |
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Changeling: The Dreaming includes selkies. As all the kiths embody various dreams, selkies are dreams of the sea. Their sealskin coat can take any form (from a belt to a leather jacket to a wetsuit), and they start to wither and die (at least, their fae side does) if they're away from the coast for too long. | |
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The Mermaid's Daughter: While Kathleen is researching her family history on Inis Mór, she meets a selkie who draws her attention to the grave of three of her ancestors and tells her how she can contact the sea witches who transformed Fand into a human. He proves he's telling the truth about himself by pulling Kathleen overboard from the ferry and then turning into a seal when he hits the water. | |
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Guardians of the Flame: "Silkies" haul the guide boat of Ganness Pride when the party first arrives aboard the ship in Pandathaway. They're pulling chains, and Karl hypothesizes they were coerced somehow as it seems like they'd be able to just swim away. | |
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The world of Archipelago being full of Beast Men and wereanimals of various sorts, a were-walrus appears in book 9, page 36. | |
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In Harry Potter, selkies are merpeople, or at least the particular subspecies of merpeople that lives in Scotland. They do not seem to have any connection to seals. | |
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The Netflix children's series Puffin Rock features a seal character named Silky. | |
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The Torchwood comic Captain Jack and the Selkie features a Selkie. Here, a Selkie was a seal-like alien from another planet. It could control the weather and disguise itself as a human with a person's skin. Captain Jack Harkness found a Selkie who was the last of its kind on its dying planet. Jack took pity on the creature and took it with him to Earth. On Earth, it became part of a Scottish myth of an enchanted seal that protected its Seal Island home. | |
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The Girl from the Sea centers around the romance between a selkie and a human in Nova Scotia. Keltie, the titular sea girl, wears a seal skin but with a lover's kiss can become human and live on land. She chooses to give up her sealskin willingly to Morgan so they can date, but putting it on for any reason after that forces her to return to the sea for seven years. As it later turns out, she's not the only selkie-turned-human living in town. | |
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The writers of Knights of the Old Republic may have derived the name of their race of aquatic peoples, the Selkath, from the Selkie legends. | |
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In War of the Dreaming, selkies are the chief mooks of the forces of evil. In a reverse they are humanoid seals who wear human skins in order to pass, skins they cut off human corpses. Selkies refer to the skins as "jackets," and they can be made from any species' flesh. Weirdly enough, this is also played for comedy: high-ranking selkie switch skins so often the lower ranks are perpetually confused about their identities. | |
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Providence by Alan Moore spends much of its pagecount highlighting the social, cultural, and mythological context and background from which H. P. Lovecraft crafted his Cthulhu Mythos. When protagonist visits Salem, MA (here revealed to be the underlying model from which shadowed Innsmouth was conceived) he mistakes the hybrid Deep Ones returning to the sea as seals, highlighting the resemblance that story's shocking twist bears to the Selkie myth. | |
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In an episode of Catscratch, the banshee that was haunting the Highland Quid Clan was in fact a selkie (called a "seal woman" in the show) under a curse. | |
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In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls makes a sealskin wetsuit. This has suggested to at least one viewer how selkies might be demythified. | |
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Realmwalker has an upcoming arc focusing on Selkies. | |
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Rain of the Ghosts, set in the Caribbean, has Aycayia, who becomes a beautiful woman by removing her manatee skin. After seeing her, the protagonists look up various mermaid legends and are encouraged by the parallels to the selkie. She also has similarities to the sirens, able to hypnotize people with her beauty and singing. Unlike either, she was originally a human who was put under a curse. | |
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The 1994 John Sayles movie The Secret of Roan Inish tells the story of a family descended from selkies. It is based on the novel The Secret of Ron Mor Skerry by Rosalie K. Fry. | |
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Selkies in Pathfinder are shapeshifting Monstrous Humanoids whose true form is part human and part leopard seal. They tend to be Shapeshifting Tricksters, are accomplished bullshitters, and range from somewhat feral to out-and-out nasty. | |
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The Star Trek: Titan novels include a Selkie character, Aili Lavena, who was a former lover of Captain William Riker. Note that "Selkie" is a term used by humans for a race which is amphibious during its breeding stage (when humans and other offworlders tend to meet them), before shifting to a fully aquatic phase. These Selkies and their home-world of Pacifica are key in the novel Star Trek: The Next Generation - Losing the Peace. | |
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Selkies in AdventureQuest are not shapeshifting humans, but rather, just seals that can transform into vicious, humanoid seals. | |
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Sister Claire Missing Moments has a storyline that deals with supporting character Oscar's past where a selkie saved a young girl, Catharine, from the ocean and brought her to Oscar on the shore. Said selkie is eventually revealed to be Gabrielle, the angel that later helps Claire in the present story. | |
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In Against the Tide by John Ringo, selkies are used with tongue-in-cheek humor, as the fantasy counterpart of Real Life U.S. Navy SEALs. In the book, selkies performed commando-style beach infiltrations. | |
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Selkie appear in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game as a Neutral race capable of being either allies or enemies. They resemble seals with human-like hands and facial features, who have the ability to transform into humans. Wereseals appear in some editions as a separate type of creature: there is also a much nastier variant in the form of the "seawolf", which is essentially an amphibious werewolf with the beast form of a huge, wolf-headed seal. | |
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Haara encounters one in Vow of Nudity (who even commands a posse of polar bears and saber-tooth tigers!) | |
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The Enchanted Files: In Diary of a Mad Brownie / Cursed, selkies exist in the Enchanted Realm, and have the traditional selkie feature of appearing to be seals who can remove their skins to assume a human form. It's also noted that a human woman can summon a male selkie by shedding seven tears into the sea at high tide. Angus has to hide the skin of one in order to make a bargain with her so she'll take him across the Shadow Sea once her skin is returned. | |
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The Petaybee series by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well. | |
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"The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry", Child #113. A woman has her child taken away by its father, the great selkie of Sule Skerry which can transform from a seal into a human. The woman is fated to marry a gunner who will harpoon the selkie and their son. The Joan Baez song called "Silkie" on her second album in 1961 is a version of this. |
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Fair Vote (The Dresden Files) is about a runaway wizard apprentice, George Saga, who, in the process of disentangling himself from a star-crossed selkie, ends up lost within the dark alleys of Miami politics. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Shapeshifting sea peoples are a common encounter. Most take the form of seals, but others are known that turn to dolphins, whales or fish. They are always called Selkies, nevermind that "selkie" just means "seal". | |
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In Kiersten White's Supernaturally and Endlessly entries in her Paranormalcy trilogy, there are selkies named Kari and Donna who eat food at a diner and drive a car in their human forms. | |
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At the end of the fantasy novel Kitty and the Midnight Hour, there is a mention of a wereseal. This mention is expanded upon in Kitty's House of Horrors, where the heroine meets a wereseal. He was a normal human until he was infected with a disease by a bite from another wereseal, must transform during the full moon but can transform at other times, has a Healing Factor, and has some degree of human intelligence in the other form but is basically an animal. A short story set in the same world also includes a selkie, which seems much more like the kind typical to Shapeshifting Lover stories. | |
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A selkie plays an important role in the book Meermonster (translated "Lake Monster") from the Dutch Children's book series Alfie the Werewolf (Dolfje Weerwolfje) by Paul van Loon. In the story, the protagonist finds a Selkie and sets out to return the creature to its home in Scotland. It is mentioned several times throughout the story that Selkies can turn into humans, however, this particular selkie turns out to be a special kind that eventually transforms into the Loch Ness Monster. | |
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Singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker created a song "Seafaring Satyr" based on Catherynne M. Valente's story about a female satyr and a male selkie. | |
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The Folk Keeper, a "young readers" novel by Franny Billingsley also uses this myth powerfully. | |
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In Ondine, the woman that Syracuse caught in his net is believed to be a Selkie and the film explores Selkie mythology. | |
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In Vampire High, selkies are a type of vampire that can turn into an otter, and enjoy playing water polo. | |
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The Dragon Knight series has Sir Giles, a selkie knight. | |
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In an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in which the movie being riffed on was The Space Children, Mike comments, "There's a Selkie caught in the oil slick." | |
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Invoked in Rob Roy, when Rob's wife Mary tells him about a sex dream she had involving a Selkie. | |
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The Australian film titled Selkie depicts a young teenage male moving to a coastal town with his family. After he starts growing webbing between his fingers, having dreams of the water in the bathtub, and becomes a seal after diving into the sea to save a friend, he learns that he is a Selkie. | |
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In Wishfart, selkies appear as humanoid seals who resemble regular seal pups as babies. In the episode "Baby Seal Thingy", Akiko finds a baby selkie who immediately imprints on her and thinks she's his mother. Not wanting the responsibility, Akiko wishes the selkie was big enough to look after himself and Dez's leprechaun magic makes this happen, only for the selkie to end up with an adult body, but still the brain of a baby. | |
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Song of the Sea: Selkies are distinguished from normal seals by the white seal skins that they shed to transform into humans on land. Saoirse can't speak and slowly falls ill without her seal skin, which her human father hides because he doesn't want to lose her the way he lost her selkie mother. Near the end of the film, she sends all the fairies home across the sea with the titular Song of the Sea, echoing The Legend of Chekhov told by Ben. | |
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Selkie is the story of a young selkie girl adopted by a human. The depiction is quite different from normal folklore, presenting selkies as a fish-like humanoid species. The story focuses on problems related to the girl's unusual needs, like her carnivorous diet and her problems fitting into normal shoes. | |
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In The Ancient Magus' Bride, Lindel has a selkie Familiar named Merituuli, who takes the form of a small child wearing an oversized sealskin coat. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering there are three cards with the name selkie in them. They are classified as a merfolk, are all green/blue hybrid-mana creatures, and pictured as half seal, half human. The flavour text for the card Wistful Selkie says, "Selkies call to a sea they never swam, in a tongue they never spoke, with a song they never learned." This is not just a bit of Meaningless Meaningful Words but in fact a very necessary Lampshade Hanging: the selkies' home plane has no oceans, just rivers that don't go anywhere, so these selkies are adapted to freshwater and presumably very confused. | |
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The Saga of the People of Laxardal: Hrapp has turned into a draugr (a malicious undead) after his death, and has killed or scared away everyone trying to live on his farm. Hrapp's brother-in-law, Thorstein, intends to take over Hrapp's farm and travels there on a ship with all his family and belongings. As they come near their destination, they are troubled by strong winds and run aground on a rock. While they are waiting for the tide to set the ship free, an unusually large seal appears and continues to circle the ship. Its flippers are unusually long, "and everyone aboard was struck by its eyes, which were like those of a human." The weather is worsening, until the storm capsizes the ship, drowning everyone, and only one man survives to tell the tale. The suggestion is that the seal was the ghost of Hrapp, and it was him who summoned the storm so that nobody would take over his farm. | |
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In Heather Dale's album Gawain and the Green Knight, there is a song called "The Maiden and the Selkie", about a selkie lord who wishes to marry a fisherman's daughter — a matter complicated by the fact that she cannot live with him underwater, but he cannot himself live on land past midnight without turning into seafoam. | |
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US singer Alexander James Adams sings "First Rising Tide", about a selkie man, on his 2008 CD A Familiar Promise. | |
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In Julia Golding's children's books Companions Quartet, the selkie is a companion species, and the minor character Arran is a selkie. | |
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Mixed Myth features a character who's part selkie and part werewolf. He can transform into a wolf, but only when he has his wolfskin with him. Later, his pureblood selkie relatives show up. | |
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a race called Selkie, however, unlike mythical Selkies, they are simply a humanoid race, with body paint and blue-green hair, with no apparent shapeshifting abilities. However, in their town, there is a selkie who says something along the lines of, "We Selkies came from the sea, and one day we will return there." Also, this same main town of the Selkies, Leuda, is set on an island far out at sea. | |
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In Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name by Tess Stone, the character Veser is the Half-Human Hybrid of a human/selkie marriage. Kind of a Deconstruction: it seems to posit that a guy who would knowingly hold a selkie against her will is likely a Jerkass (he also abuses his son and murders his best friend), their marriage is a sham, and Veser seems to acknowledge that his mom would abandon him if given the chance. | |
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In the fifth book of The Wardstone Chronicles, the protagonist is forced to separate a beautiful selkie from her ageing husband. In the series, selkies age very slowly, and are considered bad luck or are taught to be prostitutes. | |
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In Eclipse Phase Selkies are human-seal hybrid morphs designed for deep underwater environments, particularly the sub-crustal seas of Ceres and Europa. They look like mermaids with seal faces. | |
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The "Fae Gone Wild" episode of Lost Girl centred around selkies whose seal skins were stolen by a sleazy strip club owner. It is noted that selkies are treated as an exception to the usual rules against fae and humans interacting; in most cases fae must "claim" humans as some form of property and long-term romantic relationships are discouraged, but selkies can stay with humans for longer as they're basically human without their pelts. | |
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Discussed and perhaps subverted in Outlander. A chieftain's daughter is arranged to be married but disappears at the last moment. Attempts to find her yield rumours that she fell in love with a dark-haired dark-eyed "silkie" and has gone to live with the seals. By the time the couple is located, she's happily pregnant. Interesting as it is set in Period Scotland, yet the character speculated to be a selkie is a man, for once. | |
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Disenchantment features Ursula, who is a "forest selkie" that can turn into a bear when she wears her bearskin (or, as she clarifies, she's a bear that turns into a human when she takes OFF the skin). King Zog falls in love with her despite (or possibly because of) her brutish and uncourtly mannerisms and briefly tries to hide her skin to keep her from leaving. | |
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While Primarina from Pokémon Sun and Moon has a mermaid aesthetic, it also seems to draw inspiration from selkies, since it's a feminine-looking sea lion with a compelling singing voice. | |
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In I=MGCM, Selkie is a demon species that doesn't resemble a wereseal or even a seal at all, but instead resembles a half woman body inside a giant sentient butterfly. | |
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Spellbound (Lilafly): Sabrina's canonical devotion to Chloe is explained by her being a selkie whose coat is held by Chloe's mother. She's eventually freed, after Hawkmoth tries to akumatize her using her coat, hurting her badly in the process, and the coat is retrieved in order to purify it. | |
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Bad Machinery, "The Case of the Fire Inside", Sonny accidentally acquires a selkie girl's skin (Lottie stuffed it in his bag while he wasn't looking, and neither of them realized that it was a selkie skin). The selkie girl (Ellen Selkie, as she ends up being called) goes looking for her skin, and due to shenanigans, she finds herself enrolled at the same school as Sonny and Lottie. Ellen's father also comes looking for her and her sister, who turns out to be Mildred's psychotic romantic rival (for the young man who found her sealskin as a child). Unfortunately, she left her skin behind when she was very young and no longer fits into it, leaving her trapped as a human. She ends up arrested for murdering previous rivals. |
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: During their trip to Ireland, McQueen and Dooley encounter a seal that sings in English. Whether it's actually a selkie is not established, because by this point a singing seal falls so far below their weirdness threshold that they don't even question it, but it seems the most likely explanation. | |
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In the Merry Gentry series, a selkie named Roane Finn is the lover of Merry Gentry, who is a part human part fey princess who is hiding in Los Angeles in self-imposed exile from the Unseelie Kingdom. Roane Finn had his skin taken away from him, but after sleeping with her (because of fertility powers or something, various characters gain abilities after sleeping with her. Also this is Laurell K Hamilton we are talking about) he regains his skin and can transform into a seal again. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing includes wereseals. Blood of the Wereseal is a potion that causes your muscles to wax and wane with the moons. | |
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Juniper Sawfeather: Echo of the Cliffs has June's parents' friend Vanessa, who is secretly a selkie. Her late husband, Lonnie, stole her sealskin to force her to marry him and live far from the ocean. Now that Lonnie is dead, Vanessa has regained the ability to transform. She still lives most of the time as a human, but she bought a house by the sea so she can talk to other seals. | |
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There's More Magic Out There: Alya is a fox selkie that can transform when putting on her fox skin. Her sister Nora is a bear selkie. Their mother is a selkie, but lost her powers after the girl's birth father stole her skin and forced her to marry him. She managed to escape with her daughters and married her current husband Otis, who she had two human twins with. | |
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Pokémon Uranium has a Fairy/Water hybrid called Selkid, whose name is an obvious reference to Selkies seems to be based more on mermaids or sea nymphs. | |
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