Silk

Shélki (Sélki, Eng. Selkie) - mythical creature of Scottish and Irish folklore (in Ireland they are called roany), sea people, people-seals.
Resemble humanoid seal with brown eyes. Seal skins allow them to live in the sea, but they sometimes have surfaced for air. According to some sources, the silk - the descendants of people who were driven into the sea for their crimes. That is why they are so drawn to the land. Are out of the water once in nine nights. When out of the water, throwing off the sealskin and take human form. If a guy or girl finds discarded silk skin, it can lead to marriage silk. The children of such marriages are born with webbed toes and has healing powers. But such a marriage, as in the case with mermaids, often lasts a very short time.
Girls silk often also looking for a partner for sexual relations among people. If a young person will find a red hat on the beach, it means that they are interested in silk. If he accepts the offer, it should go on the next day at sunset to the shore, where he will be silk.
Silk is presented as loving and good creatures, but they can avenge the insult, causing storms turning fishing boats.
Silk can be called, sitting on a rock at night by the water and dropped into the water seven tears.
Roany much like silk, but they differ a great fondness for peace and timidity.

Tale has it that a fisherman walking along the beach when he heard laughter. He crept closer and saw bathing in the sea of ​​young people. Nearby on the sand lay sealskin. The fisherman pulled one of them.
When everyone else spread to seals and floated on the bank there was one pretty girl. She begged the fisherman to give the skin, but he fell in love with a girl at first sight, and took her as his wife.
They moved in together and were happy, but the fisherman's wife if something oppressive: it sometimes wistfully looked at the sea. One younger daughter asked her what is in the stone barn - a silvery, with brown stripes. The woman ran to the barn, grabbed the skin and headed out to sea. When she sailed from the coast, to meet her, got the boat in which sat a fisherman. He looked at the seal, and found his wife's eyes, but it was too late.