Feb '19 / March '19 Lite Challenge: The Seal Woman

[AtTheShoreline]

That is the cool thing about folklore stories - they travel and evolve and get adapted and mutated along the way. And the story obviously had made its way to Finland too, if your mother told it to you. Or is she or are you originally from Faroe islands?

It is fascinating how they can change and travel! No, we're both Finnish. I asked her where she got the story from and she didn't remember exactly, probably from some book with Nordic folk tales. She used to tell the story to a lot of groups of visitors to a Viking house here, so she's definitely done her part in spreading it in Finland.

[PaperGriffin]

It is fascinating how they can change and travel!

What I find fascinating is how certain myths seem to spring up independently of each other but still have common themes. For instance so many cultures have their own take on dragons and vampires without any apparent cultural interaction. And I feel I must tip my hat to your mother; anybody that keeps the old stories alive deserves acknowledging