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Selkie

“The best-known myth built on this weakness is the "selkie bride" tale, in which a human man steals and hides a female Selkie's skin while she is ashore in human form, compelling her to stay and marry him; she typically bears his children while continuing to search for her hidden skin, and when she eventually finds it, she abandons her human family without hesitation to return to the sea.”