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24-08-2018 Mikladel 2nd day of the 4 day visit of Prince Frederik and Princess Mary and Prince Christian and Princess Isabella and Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine visiting Selkie, the statue of the Seal woman, at the Faeroer islands in Denmark.
A typical folk-tale is that of a man who steals a female selkie's skin, finds her naked on the sea shore, and compels her to become his wife.
But the wife will spend her time in captivity longing for the sea, her true home, and will often be seen gazing longingly at the ocean.
She may bear several children by her human husband, but once she discovers her skin, she will immediately return to the sea and abandon the children she loved. Sometimes, one of her children discovers or knows the whereabouts of the skin.
Sometimes it is revealed she already had a first husband from her own kind. Although in some children’s story versions, the selkie revisits her family on land once a year, in the typical folktale she is never seen again by them.
Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them returned to their seal form. In one version, the selkie wife was never seen again (at least in human form) by the family, but the children would witness a large seal approach them and "greet" them plaintively
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