Silkies

Silkies are female spirits purported to live on the English-Scottish border.

Not to be confused with Selkies.

Description

In folklore, silkies are female spirits clothed in silk. Although usually helpful and valued, performing chores and guarding houses against harmful intruders, they can also be mischievous, leaving houses they inhabit in disarray.[1]

gollark: Also a bunch more running ChorOS, but those are all on SC anyway.
gollark: I can use the amazing *four* computers running potatOS and connected to SPUDNET right now to repeatedly download the file.
gollark: Time to use the PotatOS Compute Network to launch a COOLER attack on it.
gollark: ++delete <@!160279332454006795>'s "DDOS" attack
gollark: ++list_deleted @

References
  1. Guiley, Rosemary. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print.

See also
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