The Shape Shifting Stories

A selky is a seal who, in certain circumstances, usually once a month, under the light of the full moon, is capable of shedding her seal skin and transforming into a human woman. The story goes that there is a fisherman, a very lonely fisherman, hide behind a rock, watching this going on. He steals the skin of one of the selkers; she is forced to stay with him for seven years. She bears his children. At the end of seven years, she's desicated. Sheis not meant to be on land. And i think these shape shifting stories tap into a longing that we often don't even know have. And we feel that very deeply