We do however, have Kelpies. They’re like horses, but live in Lochs and Burns and such, and try to lure folk back to their death.. Not so hot.

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Heather: Nice info! Except now I’m sad because a wee little selkie got killed.

Jiminy Christmas…

Judy Collins has a song (not original to her) called “The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry” about a woman who’s all upset that she doesn’t know where her son’s father is — apparently it was a one-night stand — and then he appears and it turns out he’s a Selkie and he takes the kid from her and tosses her some money instead. Nice guys, those selkies. (But then — and I’d forgotten this until I looked up the lyrics just now — he goes on to explain that she’d marry a gunner who would end up hunting and killing both he [the selkie] and the baby seklie-human. What a depressing story. I’m sorry I brought it up.]

Less depressing fact: when the bones of an iguanodon were found, there was one that was curved so they thought it was a horn, like a rhino. Forty years later they realized that it was supposed to be a thumb spike.

Moving on. In a similar mythical vein, Satyrs are the Greek half man/half goat creatures who are renowned for their sex drive. If you wiki it, you will find a lovely picture of one balancing a goblet of wine on his penis, the tip of his penis no less. Here is the link and while he has human feet (apparently the Romans made them more goat-like) he does have a tail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Komos_Douris_BM_E768.jpg

They are lovers of wine, women and boys, and are ready for every physical pleasure. They roam to the music of pipes, cymbals, castanets, and bagpipes, and love to dance with the nymphs (with whom they are obsessed, and whom they often pursue).