The human children of selkies are often born with strange conditions like pale, dry skin and syndactyly (a webbing between the fingers and toes) 🦭

🎨 by Jackie Morris

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Sometimes the Selkie bride who returns to the sea after finding her hidden pelt has a seal husband and seal children waiting for her 🦭🌕

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When a fisherman falls in love with a Selkie, he locks her seal pelt in his sea chest so she can’t return to her home in the sea.

Do you think the fisherman is the villain of Selkie Bride tales?

🎨 from ShortStoriesforKids

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