![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the years pass, the men are in her debt and in thrall to their imprisoned wives, and all the human women have fled to the mainland. Driven by loneliness, bitterness, and a longing for power, Misskaella begins calling forth seal-women as wives for the men of the island and charging the men a steep price to hide their wives' skins so that they may never return to their underwater home. into a manlike or a womanlike form." Impatient for love, she creates a man from a seal, but after a single magical night she releases him back to the sea the resulting baby boy must also be given up to the sea if he is to survive. Ugly young Misskaella is mocked and feared for her magic, which connects her to the seals that frequent her isolated island home and gives her the power to "persuade them to combine. ![]()
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