CUE CARD FOR THE SEAL CATCHER AND THE SELKIE


Background: Scottish folk tale.

Length: 10+ minutes

Title: The Seal Catcher and the Selkie

Characters:
1. The Seal Catcher.
2. The Large Seal.
3. The Wealthy Gentleman/Selkie.

Events and Setting:
1. The Seal Catcher stabs a seal that escapes with his knife.
2. He meets a Wealth Gentleman on the way home.
3. The Gentleman offers him money and a knife for many sealskins.
4. The Seal Catcher goes with the Gentleman to the top of a cliff.
5. They both go over the edge and turn into seals.
6. The WG/Selkie leads him to a grotto on the bottom of the sea, filled with selkies.
7. The Seal Catcher heals the large seal.
8. The Selkie returns him to land and pays him the money if he will never hunt seals again.

The islands of Scotland

Things to Keep:
Words of the Selkie: "Never say that we deprived a man of his livelihood and gave him nothing in return."

My Additions to Keep:
From Susan Cooper's retelling of the Selkie Girl: "The islands rise green out of the sea. The waves dash on the gray rocks and strange things may happen there." Beginning.
"...and strange things do happen there." End.
Colors of the sea: blue with sun, green with little sun, dark blue, black with shiny fish.
Sealcatcher's greed for money.
Wealthy gentleman's trouble with speaking.

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