Page 2. Cyren and Terri's guide to magical creatures
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These, what Terri recalls as "Scary Selkies" are actually Irish merfolk or Merrows.
While the females are generally hauntingly beautiful, the males are described as brutish in appearence, possesing a pig-like snout, tusks and red beady eyes. They are, however, quite friendly and jovial.
The merrow always wears a red-feathered headpiece which enables it to cross from our world to their watery one. On land, if the merrow were to remove such headpiece, it would transform into a beautiful human being with webbed hands or a quaint cattle.
Should a human steal the merrow's feathered-headpiece, it would be forever bound to that human until it finds it once more. Unlike Selkies who usually return to the sea when they find their seal-skin, most Merrow females are content being human wives considering their males are (even amongst their kind) considered quite ugly!
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