Orkney Folklore
The folklore of Orkney includes tales of the selkie folk ("selkie" being the Orcadian dialect word for "seal"), a race of shape-shifting seals that can take human form. To do so they have to remove their seal skin, revealing what appears to be a human underneath. They would also venture onto land for encounters with human women, often unsatisfied ones.
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