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: (people vaguely know that some areas of it do some things, and they work using something something interacting synapses)
gollark: You can get a rough high-level overview of it, but we've done that with brains.
gollark: They have billions of transistors in them, imaging them is hard itself, nobody actually knows how all the parts work, and they're designed with computerized design tools such that nobody knows what's going on with all the individual transistors either.
gollark: You can't really dissect a modern CPU and work out how it works, though.
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References
  1. Guiley, Rosemary. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print.

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