The Selkie (necklace)

The Selkie necklace has a wonderful inlay adorned with a Celtic knot etching. The inlay itself is a beautiful ripple acrylic in shimmering whites which has subtle ripples of the palest purples, pinks and blues when catching the light. The seal skin has a mother of pearl effect and is adorned with an old antique mirrored acrylic that catches surrounding reflections, detailing the markings of a seal and hints at sparkling waters.

What is a Selkie?

Well the folklore passed down to me has it that a young lad walking the misty cliffs of the Orkney isles in Scotland heard music and singing. Knowing not of any ceilidh of his kinfolk, he made his way down to the shore. Hiding behind rocks he espied a gathering of a fair people, dancing in the moonlight. A young lass, who was fairest of them all held his gaze long and his heart captive. He weaved his way down to the dancers unseen, he heard their words and enchanting songs. He saw in the waning moonlight a few departing, putting on strange cloaks and heading into the sea, and as they did so they took on the form of seals, he then realised that they were the shapeshifters of old fireside tales, the selkies. Recalling the stories he picked up the fair lassie's seal skin and kept it to him. The selkie lass realising she could not go back into the sea as the others were doing, followed him home to his croft. The young lad hid the selkie skin so she would have to stay with him, so in love was he. The lass was not adverse to this young man of the land and came to care for him deeply and bore him three sons. They were content for a while but for the selkie lass the pull of the sea was forever strong and becoming stronger as the years past. Fearful of losing his love the young man would not reveal the hiding place of the selkie's skin. The selkie wife became forlorn and would spend most of her time looking to the sea. It was their first born that discovered the hidden selkie skin while playing in the shoreline caves and brought it to his mother asking for what he had found. She kissed him and then his brothers in turn. At a distance and in despair the young man saw his selkie wife running into the sea while putting on her selkie skin and he knew he had lost her. From time to time the selkie wife would sit on a rock near the shore and watch her sons on the beach, she would sing to them and rejoice that they understood her words and she knew they would be together again some day when the sea called to them, her Selkie sons.

Measuring 54x56mm

Black polyester necklace cord with Tibetan antique silver connector bail and stainless steel jump hoops comes as standard but if you prefer a chain (like in the fifth picture) just place a request when ordering I have a few made in that way.