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A Highland Song, the indie 2023 video game, features Selkies as folk creatures who are shown to appear in both seal and human form and have complex relationships, both with each other and humans. Song of the Selkie, the 2024 short film, features a Selkie as the central character, delving into Scottish and Faroese folklore.
The woman is fated to marry a gunner who will harpoon the selkie and their son. "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" is a short version from Shetland published in the 1850s and later listed as Child ballad number 113. "The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry" is the title of the Orcadian texts, about twice in length.
Seelie is a term for fairies in Scottish folklore, appearing in the form of seely wights or The Seelie Court. The Northern and Middle English word seely (also seily, seelie, sealy), and the Scots form seilie, mean "happy", "lucky" or "blessed." [1] Despite their name, the seelie folk of legend could be morally ambivalent and dangerous.
Scottish folklore (Scottish Gaelic: Beul-aithris na h-Alba) encompasses the folklore of the Scottish people from their earliest records until today. Folklorists , both academic and amateur, have published a variety of works focused specifically on the area over the years. [ 1 ]
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The nuckelavee is the most malevolent of the demons in and around the Scottish islands, without any redeeming characteristics. [1] The only entity able to control it is the Mither o' the Sea, an ancient spirit in Orcadian mythology who keeps the nuckelavee confined during the summer months. [25]
A young farmer from Mikladalur once went to the beach to watch the selkies dance. There he sees a beautiful selkie maiden shedding her seal skin, and he is hit by an intense desire for her. He hides the skin, so that she cannot go back to sea at the end of the night, and confronts her, and forces her to marry him.
This myth is akin to the popular myth of the Mayans and deals with female power in the "creation and the cycle of the year". However, Donald Mackenzie in his book Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend states that the goddesses of the Scottish myths are not glorified, very much unlike the goddesses of ancient Greece. [3]