Encounters With The Good People

Selkie – Still Waters Run Deep.Come, join Kitty and bask under the warm glow of the doe-eyed Selkie.The Selkie story is a familiar one: under the light of the moon, a beautiful woman with milky white skin, long brown hair and big brown eyes, dances on the rocky shore. A canny man steals her sealskin and she is evermore bound to live on land, to be his wife and bear his children. She is a fine wife, a loving mother and, although she spends every spare moment gazing out at sea and talking to seagulls, theirs is a good life.NUTS TO THAT!It’s time to wipe the misty romanticism from our eyes and take a real look at Selkie. Her predicament is no fairytale.Faerie of traditional Folklore are old, clever and can shed their skin whole. They are all around us, always watching. But what are they thinking? Do they yearn to befriend us?It is said “still waters run deep” and so it is with Selkie, the ‘feel-good’ member of the Good People.Kitty takes a close look at these romanticised creatures to discover the fascinating ch