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A prize for Checanty, who won the latest contest over at - Mermaids!
Here is the winning piece:
We decided to do a swap - a Selkie each, which fits as we've both been working on series of creatures from folklore this year.
My Selkie is not the usual soft and gentle little thing - I think if you stole her skin you'd be sorry! She was largely inspired by winning literature piece from the 'Mermaids' contest, by ThornyEnglishRose, which had a great take on the original Selkie legend with a badass Selkie!
A prize for Checanty, who won the latest contest over at - Mermaids!
Here is the winning piece:
We decided to do a swap - a Selkie each, which fits as we've both been working on series of creatures from folklore this year.
My Selkie is not the usual soft and gentle little thing - I think if you stole her skin you'd be sorry! She was largely inspired by winning literature piece from the 'Mermaids' contest, by ThornyEnglishRose, which had a great take on the original Selkie legend with a badass Selkie!
Selkie Shores'You're from the mainland, aye?' the fisherman said. 'I'll tell you one of Orkney's legends.'
'Oh aye?'
'Ever heard of selkies?'
'Tell me.'
'Mermaids, lass,' the fisherman said. 'Nae the fish-tailed women of the deep, mind. They're here on our very shores. You see, selkie means -'
'Seal,' she said. 'I know. Go on.'
'Well, lass, beneath the skins of each seal is a beautiful woman. If one sheds her skin, and a lad finds it and hides it, she has to marry him.'
She laughed. 'Och, away with you!'
''Tis true, lass.'
'Why wouldn't the selkie do anything about it?'
'She cannae find her skin,' said the fisherman, 'and she cannae return to the sea without it.'
'Does she even bother to look for it?'
''Tis generally the bairns that find her skin. Then she leaves her human family for the sea.'
'She must be weak-willed indeed to have this fellow's children.'
'They are weak-willed beings.'
'What about the bull seals?' she asked. 'The men?'
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