| Sweet, large, and indolent water fairies who appear in the shape of seals, selkies are often found basking around the edges of the coastline. It is believed, though, that their official places of origins are a tiny, secret island off the North Norfolk coast and a rocky inlet to the west of the Orkney Islands. In mortal form they have big brown and gold-flecked eyes, and range in speckled skin tones from pale cream to cookie colour. Usually they assume human form at nighttime by casting off their coats, although they prefer to resume seal form by the first light of day. If you steal its discarded coat, you will have a selkie in your power and it will have to stay with you until it can regain its seal coat. Guardians of the fairy loaf-a small round fossilized sea urchin, about 70 million years old and known as an echnite-the selkie can help you with magick from the fairy loaf. Selkies are both male and female. Originally they were said to be humans who were put under a spell that transformed them into seals. Because of the spell, the very first selkies could resume human form once a year only, on Midsummer's Eve, when they would cast off their coats and dance upon the shore. However, modern descendants of selkie and human marriages can now choose when they change shape. |
