They say they go away now and then, and no one really knows where but it is believed that they go back to their own people and change into seals again, because they must plunge and riot about in the sea.

Sometimes they come home, but sometimes they do not.
"A beautiful young stranger, with soft, dark eyes, appeared once not far from Muircarrie, and he married a boatman's daughter.

He was very restless one night, and got up and left her, and she never saw him again; but a few days later a splendid dead seal covered with wounds was washed up near his cottage.

The fishers say that his people had wanted to keep him from his land wife, and they had fought with him and killed him.

His wife had a son with strange, velvet eyes like his father's, and she couldn't keep him away from the water.