A lone selkie, caught between her seal and human forms, stands on a windswept Irish island shore. She is half seal, half human. She has a ...

Selkies which means "Seal Folk" are mythological beings who are capable of doing therianthropy, i.e. changing from a seal to human form by shedding their skin. While "selkies" is the proper term for such shapeshifters according to an Orcadian folklorist, treatises on Shetland refer to them merely as mermen or merwomen.