The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
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The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry or The Grey Selkie of Suleskerry is Child ballad number 113, from the Orkneys.
Synopsis
A woman laments that she does not know her son's father. A man rises up to tell her that he is the father, and that he is a selkie: a man only on the land, a seal in the water. He takes his son, gives her a purse of gold, and predicts that she will marry a gunner, who will shoot both him and his son.External links
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