Ep. 340 | The Dark Truth Behind Orkney’s Selkies w/ Nick Jubber

What lies behind the haunting Scottish legends of the Selkies? In this episode of The Nordic Mythology Podcast, host Daniel Farrand sits down with travel author and folklorist Nick Jubber (author of Monsterland) to explore Orkney’s legendary seal-people. From tragic tales of stolen seal skins and forced marriages to vengeful bull seals and shapeshifting seals in the Icelandic sagas, Dan and Nick break down how island isolation, shipwrecks, and untamed coastlines birthed these enduring tales. They also examine how ancient cultures demonized outsiders as "monsters," Nick’s night trapped inside an 18th-century Serbian vampire mill, and why William the Conqueror recruited a witch for battlefield warfare.

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