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How Seals Came Into Being

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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
How Seals Came Into Being: transformation, origins, sea, enchantment, loss, wonder
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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How Seals Came Into Being

It is said about the origin of the seals that, as an Egyptian king Pharaoh Moses and the Jews persecuted over the Red Sea and with it his entire army drowned, as we know from the Bible, the king and all his men became seals, and that is why the bones resemble seals are so much like humans. Since then, seals have lived Seals live like a family on the seabed, but have the shape, nature and characteristics of man under the fur They are permitted, as a grace, to pray every St. John’s night, or as others say, to take the furs out of the skins every Epiphany night crawl; then they go on land, take human form and sing and dance like other people.

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