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* The album ''Honeycomb'' by former Pixies front-man Frank Black includes a tune called "Selkie Bride", which alludes to the Selkie legend.
* The poet [[Jane Yolen]] wrote a poem entitled "The Ballad of the White Seal Maid", that is a sad story of a fisherman and his selkie wife. This poem was set to music by the folk musician Lui Collins, and recorded by her and also by Mike Agranoff.
* The Faroese ballad "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726111431/http://www.fotatradk.com/kv/Kopakvaedi.htm Kópakvæði]" (the seal-ballad) by Faroese writer Joen Danielsen is based on the story about the Seal-Wife from Kalsoy island. The ballad is in Faroese and consists of 68 verses.
* The song "Sælkvinden" (the seal-woman) by Danish singer Lars Lilholt is a sad story about a young fisherman and a selkie.
* The British folk artist Talis Kimberley wrote "Still Catch the Tide," a song written from the perspective of the selkie's lover, upon returning to find the selkie (which is of indeterminate gender) packing their things to return to the sea. The song has been covered by several other folk artists.
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