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Sailors & Other Sea Travellers - Superstition & Folklore

 ”Red skies at night, sailor’s delight. Red skies at morning, sailor take warning.”

Lore

Davy Jones is a popular character in sailor’s yore, especially of the gothic variety. Davy Jones’ Locker, is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death for drowned sailors. The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including:

An actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s.

A pub owner who kidnapped sailors and then dumped them onto any passing ship.

The incompetent Duffer Jones, a myopic sailor who often found himself over-board.

Or that Davy Jones is another name for Satan or “Devil Jonah”, the biblical Jonah who became the “evil angel” of all sailors. Due to this, sailors with the name “Jonah” were bad luck to have abroad.

Upon death, a wicked sailor’s body supposedly went to Davy Jones’ locker (a chest, as lockers were back then), but a pious sailor’s soul went to Fiddler’s Green (in maritime folklore it is a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea).

At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.

Dolphins and albatrosses were said to be the reincarnated souls of dead sailors; and sailors could not kill either of them. 

Mermaids & Mermen

The legend of the mermaid, a creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish, has circulated the worlds oceans as far back as 5,000 B.C.

One of the earliest scientific accounts of the mermaid was documented by the great historian Pliny The Elder in 586 A.D. Pliny the Elder was convinced of the existence of mermaids and described them as “rough and scaled all over.” Since that time, and well before, thousands of sailors across the globe have reported seeing mermaids swimming off the bows of their ships. Even the famous Christopher Columbus reported an encounter with a mermaid; in January of 1493 Columbus reported that he saw three mermaids fin the ocean just off Haiti.

Mermaids were often considered lucky, but not universally. In Trinidad and Tobago, sea-dwelling mermen “were known to grant a wish, transform mediocrity into genius and confer wealth and power.” Mermaids appear in British folklore as unlucky omens, both foretelling disaster and provoking it.

Sailors would look for mermaid’s purses (the egg case of a skate, ray or shark; one of the most common objects washed up on the sea) on beaches for signs of mermaids in the area.

Klabautermann 

Traditionally, a type of kobold, a Klabautermann, lives aboard ships and helps sailors and fishermen on the Baltic or North Sea in their duties. He is a merry and diligent creature, with an expert understanding of most watercraft, and an unsupressable musical talent. He also rescues sailors washed overboard. The belief in Klabautermanns dates to at least the 1770s.

A carved Klabautermann image, of a small sailor dressed in yellow with a tobacco pipe and wooden sailor’s cap, often wearing a caulking hammer, is attached to the mast as a symbol of good luck. 

However, despite the positive attributes, there is one omen associated with his presence: no member of a ship blessed by his presence shall ever set eyes on him; he only ever becomes visible to the crew of a doomed ship.

More recently, the Klabautermann is sometimes described as having more sinister attributes, and blamed for things that go wrong on the ship. This incarnation of the Klabautermann is more demon- or goblin-like, prone to play pranks and, eventually, doom the ship and her crew. This deterioration of image probably stems from sailors, upon returning home, telling stories of their adventures at sea.

Sailor Tattoos

Sailors believed that certain symbols and talismans would help them in when facing certain events in life; they thought that those symbols would attract good luck or bad luck in the worst of the cases:

Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.

The images of a pig and a hen were good luck; both animals are not capable of swimming, but they believed that God would look down upon a shipwreck and see an animal not capable of swimming and would take them into his hand and place them on land. Sailors had the belief that by wearing the North Star, this symbol would help them to find his or her way home.

The Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship  that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from 17th-century nautical folklore. The oldest extant version dates to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman will try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.

 Some say that The Flying Dutchman was used for piracy and was loaded with gold and other loot. While travelling with a load of treasure, unspeakable crimes were committed on board the ship, thus making it cursed forever.

“originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed” and that the apparition of the ship “is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens.”

Other variations of the legend say that the Captain of The Flying Dutchman refused to go to port in the face of a horrible storm and as a result the entire ship perished. Others claim that the ship was not called The Flying Dutchman - that instead it was the name of the captain of the ship. Eventually, as people passed the legend down through the generations, the story of The Flying Dutchman referred to the ship.

Superstitions

Bad luck:

No bananas on board -  At the height of the trading empire between Spain and the Caribbean in the 1700’s, most cases of disappearing ships happened to be carrying a cargo of bananas at the time.

No women on board - Women were said to bring bad luck on board because they distracted the sailors from their sea duties. This kind of behaviour angered the intemperate seas that would take their revenge out on the ship. However, images of naked women were carved onto the bow of the ship because the woman’s bare breasts  ”shamed the stormy seas into calm” and her open eyes guided the seamen to safety.

No whistling on board - Mariners have long held the belief that whistling or singing into the wind will “whistle up a storm”.

Deathly lexis - At sea, some words must be strictly avoided to ensure the ship and crew’s safe return. These include obvious ones like “drowned” and “goodbye”. If someone says “good luck” to you, it is sure to bring about bad luck. The only way to reverse the curse is by drawing blood.

Lurking sharks - A shark following the ship is a sign of inevitable death.

Unlucky days: - Fridays: Fridays have long been considered unlucky days, likely because Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday. - Thursdays: Thursdays are bad sailing days because that is Thor’s day, the god of thunders and storms. - First Monday in April: The first Monday in April is the day Cain slew Abel. - Second Monday in August: The second Monday in August is the day the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. - Superstitious sailor believed that the only good day to sail on was sundays.

Changing the name of the boat - Boats develop a life and mind of their own once they are named and Christened. If you do rename the boat- you absolutely must have a de-naming ceremony. This ceremony can be performed by writing the current boat name on a piece of paper, folding the paper and placing it in a wooden box then burning the box. After, the ashes were scooped up and thrown into the sea.

Red heads - Red heads were thought to bring bad luck to a ship if you happened to encounter one before boarding. However, if you speak to the redhead before they get the chance to speak to you, it is cancelled out.

Good luck:

It is good luck to spit in the ocean before you sail.

Coins thrown into the sea as a boat leaves port is a small toll to Neptune, the sea god, for a safe voyage.

Horseshoes on a ship’s mast will turn away a storm.

Cats brought luck. If a ship’s cat came to a sailor, it meant good luck.

Pouring wine on the deck will bring good luck on a long voyage.

It is often considered lucky to touch the collar of a sailor’s suit.

actually imagine the AIs don’t copy UNDEAD’s trauma but only their superficial traits of their past self. Kaoru AI doesn’t realise why he acts like a playboy, Rei AI doesn’t feel the burn out Ore Rei had etc etc

OUGH. THIS IS SO SMART. YOUR BRAIN.

especially since their superficial traits are what they probably think their fans / friends see of them, so you can explore how the people closest to them who see past their superficiality (e.g. like rei and adonis' conversation where rei is surprised that adonis could tell when he was depressed) and know that the AI aren't the real deal, just shallow copies 🥺 and we could get what you were talking about, the members of undead talking to their old selves and showing them that their actions were negative coping mechanisms and were making them miserable in the long run. the AI had so much potential!!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ensemble Stars! (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hakaze Kaoru/Oogami Kouga/Otogari Adonis/Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru & Oogami Kouga & Otogari Adonis & Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru/Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru/Oogami Kouga, Hakaze Kaoru/Otogari Adonis, Oogami Kouga/Otogari Adonis, Oogami Kouga/Sakuma Rei, Otogari Adonis/Sakuma Rei Characters: Hakaze Kaoru, Oogami Kouga, Otogari Adonis, Sakuma Rei Additional Tags: Ensemble Stars Rarepair Week, Enstars Rarepair Week, Established Relationship, Fluff, Polyamory, Beaches, Touch-Starved Otogari Adonis Series: Part 6 of enstars rarepair week 2024 Summary:

Day 5: Beach / Family - UNDEAD has fun at the beach!

Adonis will say the most profound thing and then follow it up with “sorry I am not good with my thoughts”. Enough is enough, let my boy stop with his lies

The song is Banana Shake (sped up)

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fun fact #1: the name of adonis' character in the Love & Beast drama, inogari, was written as 猪狩 -- with the same 狩 character ("to hunt") as his last name otogari (乙狩), but with the kanji 猪, meaning boar. fun fact #2: in greek myth, adonis was killed by a boar while he was out hunting. these are definitely two totally unrelated facts and you shouldn't read into it at all (you should)

Lets Talk Palestine latest updates!! *IMPORTANT* November 21st, 2023, 8:38pm (EST)

This is all available on their free broadcast channel on their Instagram page:

The Israeli cabinet has just voted to accept a deal with Hamas! ❗️

The full details of the deal are not public, but here’s what is currently expected:

• Fifty Israeli women & children held in Gaza would be released in exchange for a temporary ceasefire of four to five days.

• About 150 Palestinian women and children are expected to be released from Israeli jails.

• There will be a 24-hour period following the release of a list of Palestinian names to allow for legal appeals.

• Ten captives are expected to be released each day during the course of the pause in fighting. It has been reported that Israel is willing to give an additional day of pause for every 10 further captives released by Hamas.

• About 300 trucks of aid, including fuel, are expected to be allowed into the Gaza Strip.

• Israel has reportedly agreed not to fly drones for 6 hours per day.

• During the pause, Israel says it will refuse to allow Palestinians to return to their homes in northern Gaza.

When will this happen?

Several steps need to happen before the bombing of Gaza pauses and the Palestinian & Israeli captives are swapped.

1. Israel needs to officially inform Qatar, which is mediating between Israel & Hamas, of its acceptance

2. Qatar will officially announce the deal

3. A 24-hour period when any Israeli can challenge the deal in the Israeli High Court.

4. ^ If these challenges fail, the first round of captive swaps will take place, likely on Thursday or Friday.

ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing