selkie
Noun
Meaning
selkie (plural selkies)
A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.
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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.
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.