Song of the Sea

Here's a cute bit of animation i discovered on another blog http://pandaleina.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog



When i saw this i immediately thought of Scottish and Icelandic mythology, which tells of a mystical creature known as a Selkie (scots for seal) that sheds its skin from seal to become human, and can return to the sea by putting their skins back on. Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. Other times the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing them from returning to seal form. If a man steals a female selkie's skin, she is in his power, to an extent, and she is forced to become his wife. A selkie can only make contact with one particular human for a short amount of time before they must return to the sea. They are not able to make contact with that human again for seven years, unless the human is to steal their selkie's skin and hide it or burn it.