Noun
selkie (plural selkies)
A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.
Another good movie is “Ondine,” about an Irish fisherman (Colin Farrell, yum) who catches a woman in his net one day out at sea, and his little daughter thinks she’s a selkie. Source: Internet
Cormac, trying to come to grips with a strained relationship with his own father, also becomes caught up in the century-old disappearance of a Donegal woman believed to be a selkie, a seal who could shed her skin and became human. Source: Internet