Selkies were thought to be able to shapeshift into a human form every seven years.

The number seven frequently appears in Selkie mythology, as it was thought that their bodies housed condemned souls. Some believed them to be fallen angels.

🌊 A.M. Sartor

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'Song of the Sea' is a beautiful hand-drawn animated film about selkies. A boy discovers his mute sister Saorsie is actually a selkie and he blames her for their mother's disappearance. She has the task of freeing faerie creatures from the Irish goddess Macha.

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I love mermaids and selkies, first mermaid is ’s..
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Selkies are a different type of shapeshifter, they shed their seal skin to take on human form. The seal skin of part of their body and if they lose it won't be able to turn back into a seal. It's technique seen with other shifters around the world like the berserkers.

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Rather old pieces done for a (Mitos y Leyendas). This edition in particular revolved around celtic mythology, pretty fun stuff to do back then and still happy with these ones.
1. Selkies
2. Partholón
3. Druid sickle
4. Lesser evil

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Here's another entry in the species sheet project, the selkies! I tried to balance their original mythical inspiration with my desire to have HUMANOID SEALS. They're skilled magical mimics when they want to go on land, so long as they don't lose their skins...

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Selkies are a type of fairy that live in the sea. They have the forms if seals. When they shed their skin they become a beautiful man or woman. If someone steals their skin then someone will have control over them and they will not be able to return to the sea.#fairytaletuesday

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Playing with how Seppy would look taking the throne as Ruler of the Selkies

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i love how there's kelpies, selkies, and silkies

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Growing up in Scotland meant a childhood of fairy tales involving the sea, stories of wild waters, selkies and sea-maidens. Liver eating princesses, sodden hearts and savage souls.
The SeaKeepers,acrylic on canvas 90x60cm
https://t.co/pIoC4N1bWc

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We did a fun episode on The Mermaid Wife and Selkie stories for this week's podcast episode! It seems like Stockholm Syndrome doesn't always work in fairy tales! Come hear this exciting story with us and learn more about male Selkies & migratory folktales!
🖼️Victor Ambrus

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witches, idols, rockstar bards, selkies hippy cult leader druids, Oi! Tales of Bardic Fury has it all!
read it online today
https://t.co/tAhUegtDkK

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SCOTTOBER DAY 19: Selkie
The seal people of Scotland, selkies are creatures that can turn from human to seal by taking off their skin, getting stolen or lost.

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In the 1940s a BBC radio producer went to Scotland in search of selkies, myths of shape-shifting seal people. He treated them not as tall tales, but as cultural artefacts, believing that the stories were “the last vestiges of pagan belief, before the onset of the nuclear world https://t.co/40dOfKFzxL

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thigh-up comm for @/selkiesaurXD !

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Spent the last few days designing a bunch of selkies for some of my friends
All except Dúlaman and Sliogán who i made for myself
They sure all were a lot of fun to design so far!

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Designed a couple of Selkies for and as a lil gift
I used some of the palettes i didn't end up picking for Dulaman as a base for their colors

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Mankind poses more danger to selkies than selkies do to humans- the mesmerising seal maidens suffer capture and control

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Still scratching away at Scathless ch13, meanwhile the other 12 are free to read here: https://t.co/tjHJIRLUUP
Siblings Fionn and Aoife try to free their family from the curse of an Irish god, and find themselves targeted by all kinds of fairies, pixies, selkies and more!

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Inspired by Lessons in Selkiesitting by penandinkprincess. I read the story like, yesterday, and i HAD to draw this, it was so cute.

If by any chance you know who the author is please tell them i dedicate this silly drawing to them.

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