Selkie Stories are for Losers – how allusions and parallels tell the story
Posted in Mothers on Feb 22nd, 2022
With “Selkie Stories are for Losers,” the story is simple enough and a fair parallel of “The Goodman of Wastness”: The wife is a secret selkie, kidnapped and forced to bear children, and then she finds her skin and runs away, leaving her husband and children behind. However, in “The Goodman of Wastness,” the story seems to end right […]