steam in the inlet part and conducts therein part of the cooling steam along the rotor surface up to an extension of the first guide vane, this extension forming the shaft seal and the inner termination point of the baffle. In this manner the cooling steam reaches the vicinity of the first rows of blades. However, heat is transferred to the cooling steam from the in-flowing driving steam, which with its 580.degree. C. temperature is approximately 150.degree. C. hotter than the cooling steam, through the thin wall of the baffle, whereby the cooling steam is already heated up before it reaches the blades. The blade bases of the first two rows of rotor blades are formed with axial canals located above the rotor surface so that the coolingdalliances with fishermen could become long term relationships if their paramour stumbled upon the Selkies discarded husk before the Selkie’s walk of shame back to the ocean was complete.

As was the custom at the time the Selkie would then enter into a loveless, blackmail-facilitated marriage with her metaphysical kidnapper, often bearing him a few melancholy children that also longed for the sea. After a decade or so of numb, identity-stripping, domesticity the Selkie would either find her skin and escape, or drown the children and then fling herself off a cliff. I should mention tales of the Selkie are generally thought of as quite romantic.

Country of origin: Scotland

Are They scary:

This myth was either invented by a sailor who drowned his girlfriend after a bad break up and needed