Sealion Woman

I roll over in bed and nuzzle my way to my husband. He grins and tweaks my nose.
"You have such a tiny nose," he says. "And such huge eyes."
"Are they rabbit eyes?"
He shakes his head and stares intently. "No, they're like seal eyes. Big, wet and brown. You're my seal woman."
"Orp, orp!" I bark.

Selkie- Seal woman mythology is from Ireland, Scotland and Iceland. She is a seal in the sea, frolicking and eating fish, whatever the hell seals do. "Orp, orp!" But if she wants to step fin on land, she must shed her skin and become a woman. Fishermen always fall for her. I imagine fishermen of these areas are lonely men without regular wives, who turn to all sorts of marine life (mermaids and whatnot). So these selkie and these fishermen fall in love and get married. But soon, the seal woman will want to return to sea. Her husband, who doesn't want her to leave, hides or burns her seal skin. So she's stuck. She decorates the house, she cooks elaborate fish dinners, she takes the kids to soccer practice. She gazes longingly at the sea. But there's always a chance she finds her seal skin. When she does, she slips it on and disappears into the ocean, leaving all land life behind. She usually never returns to her fisherman husband.

See Lyin' Woman- In Byhalia, Mississippi (William Faulkner has a heart attack and died here), two young girls were singing a folk song with unknown origins. This was recorded in 1939, by a folklore researcher named Herb Halpert.

Nina Simone sang "See Line Woman and in true "Simone Blusey-ness" the sealion woman in question is low-down. She's street smart with her money and time. She "dressed in green, wears silk stockings with golden seams." She's drifts in from the sea, as it were, finds a man. Man "loses his head." She "makes him love her" and then she just "flys away." Or swims away. . .

The evolution from mythology to folk song to blues song to my bedroom in the early morning hours.
"Orp, orp!"