Larry MacDougall - Faerie Tale Illustration, Comics and Animation.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Selkie
The last drawing for the temporarily delayed, but now back on schedule book of Scottish Mythology. She is standing on a rocky Scottish shore, draped in seal skins and seaweed.
Oh, ah. I first learned about Selkies from a wonderfull set of Images on the Topic made by toerning over at Deviant Art. Great Creature! I would love to see more on this here!
Everybody does stories about women selkies, but there are men selkies too. There's at least one song about a male selkie, but they never seem to get their skins filched and hidden away to keep them captive like the women selkies always seem to. The male selkie gets a land girl pregnant and then comes back and takes the child. There's something deeply sexist in the selkie stories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qGuuazU2I
3 comments:
Oh, ah. I first learned about Selkies from a wonderfull set of Images on the Topic made by toerning over at Deviant Art. Great Creature! I would love to see more on this here!
Everybody does stories about women selkies, but there are men selkies too. There's at least one song about a male selkie, but they never seem to get their skins filched and hidden away to keep them captive like the women selkies always seem to. The male selkie gets a land girl pregnant and then comes back and takes the child. There's something deeply sexist in the selkie stories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qGuuazU2I
Ben - Toerning, really nice.
WOL - I would imagine that most stories before 1980 were/are sexist in one way or another, probably after 1980 as well.
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