Selkie

You know, the injuries get real bad again.

Maybe I'll need to call up some of the Salt Lake City Selkies out

there.

I'll show up.

Ritualistic, yeah.

And she definitely pulls a lot from folklore because the song you put on the playlist is Selkie.

Selkie.

And I love a Selkie.

I'm working on a Selkie drawing right now.

Selkie, of course, are the seal people.

They're from Scottish folklore, I think.

Where they're a seal, but they can unzip their seal skin and become a human, like take on a human form.

So what what are you drawn to in in in the Shakespeare canon specifically, like the fairy lore and the fairy characters and the magic in the Shakespeare canon? What is it about that that you love so much?

I think one of the things I love about fairies in Shakespeare is that, you know, at that time in the 16th century, there is this sort of collapsing of a lot of traditions of these medieval traditions and the folklore traditions like Selkies and that kind of thing, and the pucks of the English folklore and the elves of English folklore and different, you know, Northern European beings.

along with the fairies that we see in the French romances, for example, which tend to be more like the, you know, the Morgan Le Fay style of fairy.

And so all of these, you know, if you look at Midsummer Night's Dream or even Queen Mab, they are both small and big at once.

Yeah.

It's the Selkie story.

Yes.

In a way.

He's working at a pub in Edinburgh, but it's the pub where we saw him and Wanda in Infinity War.

And the pub's called the Old Selkie.

I'm sure, I think a lot of people aren't familiar with Selkie myths as much as other things.

Are you familiar with Selkies? I'm not,

no.

so this is a creature that you especially see in like Celtic mythology.

Wanda did, Tom.

Yeah, and also what Vision's doing now.

Totally believe that.

We've got the selkies.

I think I read A Whispers of Wonder that was about the Selkies once.

If you guys miss those stories, let me know because I actually do really miss reading stories to you.

Maybe I could bring that back.

Then I read them and I loved some of them and started to dig.

And there I met Selkie.

Yes.

Quite a pivotal character.

Yeah.

I mean, in most of the tales I read about Selkie, a man from the land comes and takes her skin, burns her skin and force her to a marriage to give birth to his child.

And she is losing her identity, he is losing her country, her language and everything.

So this is something universal.