Selkies and Wereseals: Difference between revisions

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* The ''[[Torchwood]]'' comic ''Captain Jack and the Selkie'' [[Captain Obvious|features a Selkie.]]

 

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' fanfic work ''[[Fair Vote]]'' is about a runaway wizard apprentice, George Saga, who, in the process of disentangling himself from a star-crossed selkie, ends up lost within the dark alleys of Miami politics.

 

* A ''[[Magic Treehouse]]'' book featured the two child protagonists meeting a selkie. Despite the protagonists being normal humans, they were allowed to transform into seals via sealskin as well.

 

* Hallmark made a movie in 2001 titled ''The Seventh Stream'': A grieving Irishman falls for a stranger with a special gift reminiscent of a Celtic legend.

* In an episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' in which the movie being riffed on was ''The Space Children'', Mike comments, "There's a Selkie caught in the oil slick."

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Selkie are monsters in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' roleplaying game. They resemble seals with human-like hands and facial features, who have the ability to transform into humans. Some rule books also include wereseals as a separate type of creature.

* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' there are three cards with the name selkie in them. They are classified as a merfolk, are all green/blue hybrid-mana creatures, and pictured as half seal, half human. The flavor text for the card Wistful Selkie says, "Selkies call to a sea they never swam, in a tongue they never spoke, with a song they never learned." This is not just a bit of [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]], but in fact a very necessary [[Lampshade Hanging]]: the selkies' home plane has no oceans, just rivers [[Artistic License Geology|that don't go anywhere]], so these selkies are adapted to fresh water and presumably very confused.

* ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming]]'' includes selkies. As all the kiths embody various dreams, selkies are dreams of the sea. Their sealskin coat can take any form (from a belt to a leather jacket to a wetsuit), and they start to wither and die (at least, their fae side does) if they're away from the coast for too long.

 

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