Selkie - Scottish

Hello. My name is Mara. I live in the big, sparkly sea. The sea is my home. I love my home. I splish-splash all day long. I play with my brothers and sisters. We are all seals. We dive deep, deep, deep. Down we go to see the fish. The fish are so colorful. Red fish, blue fish, yellow fish. My coat is soft and shiny. It is a warm coat. It helps me glide in the cool water. But I have a big secret. A wonderful secret. I am not just a seal. I am a Selkie. We are magical seal people. That is our secret.

Sometimes, the moon is big and round. It looks like a bright, white ball in the sky. On these nights, we swim to the land. We swim to a secret beach. It is our special place. We wiggle out of our seal skins. It is like taking off a big coat. We hide our skins by the big rocks. Shhh, it's a secret. Then, something amazing happens. We have legs. We have arms. We have little toes. We are children now. We are human children for a little while. We laugh and run on the sand. We dance and dance. The sand feels warm on our feet. The waves sing a soft song. Swish, swoosh, goes the song. We dance all night under the moon.

The sun starts to wake up. It paints the sky pink and orange. It is time to go home. We find our shiny seal skins. We slip back into our warm coats. One by one, we slide into the water. We are seals again. We are happy seals in our ocean home. Our story is the myth of the Selkie. It is a story about magic. It connects the big land and the deep blue sea. When you see a seal playing in the waves, maybe it is a Selkie. Maybe we are getting ready for our next moonlight dance. It is a happy secret from the magical ocean.