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- Subject: Re: The Great Selkie of Sule Skerrie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.062945.20359@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 06:29:45 GMT
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- In article <BztzI6.2o0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >
- >OK... So whats a "Selkie"?
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- A member of the seal-people changeling race
-
- As the male 1/2 of the song says:
- "I am a man upon the land
- I am a selkie on the sea
- & when I venture far frae land
- ^or something like
- my home it is in Sule Skerrie"
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- The question implies you haven't heard the song, so.. go hear it.
- Even thought the whole story is pretty much in the song, that didn't
- prevent me from thinking for the longest time that he was a visitor
- from outer space, instead of "just a seal".
- I was very young.
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- Is there anyone else out there who thinks the tune Joan Baez uses
- for Selkie, one of the great scary songs & tunes,
- sounds a lot, in part, if you warp it in to a different scale, like:
- Scarlet Ribbons, which is not one of the great songs or tunes,
- but has in common a very watered down version of shared supernatural aspect?
-