He ran home with one of the skins and hid it above the lintel of his door. The owner followed him. He dressed her in human clothing, married her and had a family by her. In time she found the skin again and went back to the sea.
This is the selkie wife story, here applied to a named family. Campbell does not say where on the island the family lived. The Uist bard MacCodrum, whom he quotes elsewhere, belonged to the same name.
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