"of mist and snow""; the south wind that had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters near the equator, where it is becalmed. The sailors change their minds again and blame the mariner for the torment of their thirst. In anger, the crew forces the mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of regret: Eventually, the ship encounters a ghostly hulk. On board are Death (a skeleton) and the ""Night-mare Life-in-Death"", a deathly-pale woman,"
"sea and breeding in isolated colonies. However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness. The albatrosses have been described as ""the most legendary of birds"", and have a variety of myths and legends associated with them, and today it is widely considered unlucky to harm them, although the notion that sailors believed that is a myth that derives from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", in which a sailor is punished for killing an albatross by having to wear its corpse around his neck. ""Instead of the Cross the Albatross"""
"is said to have ""an albatross around his neck"", the punishment given in the poem to the mariner who killed the albatross. A widespread myth holds that sailors believe shooting or harming an albatross is disastrous, due in part to the poem; in truth, sailors regularly killed and ate them, as reported by James Cook in 1772. However, sailors reportedly caught the birds but let them free again; the possible reason is that albatrosses were often regarded as the souls of lost sailors, so killing them was supposed to bring bad luck. The head of an albatross being caught with"
"to mariners; they are said to either foretell or cause bad weather. A more prosaic explanation of their appearance in rough weather is that, like most oceanic seabirds, they rely on the winds to support them in flight and just sit on the water surface when becalmed. The birds were sometimes thought to be the souls of perished sailors, and killing a petrel was believed to bring bad luck. The petrel's reputation led to the old name of ""witch"", although the commonest of the folk names is Mother Carey's Chicken, a name also used for storm petrels in general in"
"the albatrosses by Linnaeus, references the mythical metamorphosis of the companions of the Greek warrior Diomedes into birds. Finally, the name for the order, Procellariiformes, comes from the Latin word ""procella"" meaning ""a violent wind"" or ""a storm"". Albatrosses have been described as ""the most legendary of all birds"". An albatross is a central emblem in ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; a captive albatross is also a metaphor for the ""poète maudit ""in a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The albatross metaphor is derived from the Coleridge poem; someone bearing a burden or facing an obstacle"
"omen"" is familiar to readers of Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". The metaphor of ""an albatross around his neck"" also comes from the poem and indicates an unwanted burden causing anxiety or hindrance. In the days of sail the bird often accompanied ships for days, not merely following it, but wheeling in wide circles around it without ever being observed to land on the water. It continued its flight, apparently untired, in tempestuous as well as moderate weather. The Maori of New Zealand used albatross as a food source. They caught them by baiting hooks. Because the wing"
"Simon Hatley Simon Hatley (27 March 1685after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean. On the second voyage, with his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."" Born in 1685 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Hatley went to sea in 1708 as part of Woodes Rogers's expedition against the Spanish. Although Rogers circumnavigated the world, Hatley was captured on the coast of present-day Ecuador and imprisoned in Lima, where he was tortured"
"through their glances that they blame his action for the curse. The albatross is then literally hung around the mariner's neck by the crew to symbolize his guilt in killing the bird. Thus, the albatross can be both an omen of good or bad luck, as well as a metaphor for a burden to be carried as penance. The symbolism used in the Coleridge poem is its highlight. For example: This sense is catalogued in the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" from 1936 and 1955, but it seems only to have entered general usage in the 1960s, or possibly as early as"
"The Pious Bird of Good Omen The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, two other tracks from their previous two albums, and two tracks by blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These two tracks came from Boyd's album ""7936 South Rhodes"". The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". The"
"had rendered it much more brackish. The historical geographer Carville Earle, among others, holds to this view. The temptation to drink seawater was greatest for sailors who had expended their supply of fresh water, and were unable to capture enough rainwater for drinking. This frustration was described famously by a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1798): Although humans cannot survive on seawater alone—and, indeed, will sicken quickly if they try—some people have claimed that up to two cups a day, mixed with fresh water in a 2:3 ratio, produces no ill effect."
"a hare on board, or a rabbit, or a rat or a cat. The hare was 'the big-eared fellow', and the rabbit ‘pomet’, and the rat ‘sacote’, and the cat ‘scratcher'"". In the modern superstition, the taboo only applies to the rat, and the term 'sacote' is no longer used. Although this particular sea-taboo was one amongst many and was not held to apply on land, it has become a popular modern belief that the word is somehow unlucky and the taboo has been adopted by some as a typical Manx practice, despite the fact that the old Manx had"
"shy birds, but in spite of this, they feature heavily in human culture, generally due to the large head supporting its powerful mouth, their bright plumage, or some species' interesting behavior. For the Dusun people of Borneo, the Oriental dwarf kingfisher is considered a bad omen, and warriors who see one on the way to battle should return home. Another Bornean tribe considers the banded kingfisher an omen bird, albeit generally a good omen. The sacred kingfisher, along with other Pacific kingfishers, was venerated by the Polynesians, who believed it had control over the seas and waves. Modern taxonomy also"
"hiding in the lee of ships during storms. Early sailors named these birds ""Mother Carey's chickens"" because they were thought to warn of oncoming storms; this name is based on a corrupted form of ""Mater Cara"", a name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. Breton folklore holds that storm petrels are the spirits of sea-captains who mistreated their crew, doomed to spend eternity flying over the sea, and they are also held to be the souls of drowned sailors. A sailing superstition holds that the appearance of a storm petrel foretells bad weather. Sinister names from Britain and France include ""waterwitch"","
"""About my neck was hung"" Sailors did, however, consider it unlucky to touch a storm petrel, especially one that has landed on the ship. Gulls are one of the most commonly seen seabirds, given their use of human-made habitats (such as cities and dumps) and their often fearless nature. They therefore also have made it into the popular consciousness – they have been used metaphorically, as in ""Jonathan Livingston Seagull"" by Richard Bach, or to denote a closeness to the sea, such as their use in ""The Lord of the Rings"" both in the insignia of Gondor and therefore Númenor"
"and begins to sink. The man is then seen adrift in a Lusitania lifeboat only to be picked up decades later by the SS ""Andrea Doria"". The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to"
"birds — exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death. Finally, in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"", there is a reference to Coleridge's albatross which is extended to fit the narrative's focus on the symbolic connotations of whiteness. See ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" in popular culture. Even in the poem ""Snake"" by D.H. Lawrence he mentions the killing of Albatross by the mariner. In music journalism, the term ""albatross"" is sometimes used metaphorically to describe the mixed blessing and curse of a song that becomes so popular it overshadows the rest of the artist's"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a"
"still have amongst the most dangerous jobs, with the second highest rate of mortality only after loggers. By far the best known sailors' superstitions involve bad luck. Sailors are taught if the sunrise is red to take warning. The day ahead will be dangerous. ""Red Sky at night, Sailors delight; Red Sky in the morning, Sailors take warning."" A ""Jonah"" is a long-established expression among sailors, meaning a person (either a sailor or a passenger) who is bad luck, which is based on the Biblical prophet Jonah. The comic character Jonah's name is a direct reference to the long established"
"When wild animals fight each other or are injured the omen is bad (nos.6, 8, 37, 43, 44, 45, 46, and 61). Likewise, when domestic animals are mistreated, sick or stolen the omen is bad (nos. 16, 25, 39, 50, and 65). On the other hand, animals giving birth are good omens (nos. 5 and 41). A couple of the omens show a threefold pattern of parallelism between two animals and a human: a white mare, a she-camel and a princess give birth (no. 5); young birds, fawns, and children get lost in the fog (no.15). The Sky God Tengri"
"to touch the collar of a sailor's suit. Mermaids usually are considered lucky, but not universally. In Trinidad and Tobago, sea-dwelling mer-men ""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. Several variants of the ballad ""Sir Patrick Spens"" depict a mermaid speaking to the doomed ships. In some versions, she tells them they will never see land again; in others, she claims they are near shore, which they are wise enough to know means the same thing. Mermaids can"
"her. Another version suggested the man, Tristram Bird, fell in love with her and asked her to marry him, though she refused. In his rage he shot her. Another suggestion is that a fisherman, Tom Yeo, shot her because he thought she was a seal. The ending of the legend is generally similar. With her dying breath, she levelled a curse at Padstow, or at the harbour itself, stating that the harbour will be desolate or unsafe. With that, a great storm came, wrecking many boats and creating the great sand bank known as the Doom Bar. Within the bounds"
"sailed for Jamaica, then a den of pirates, without presenting himself to the owners of the Shelvocke expedition. Nothing is known of him thereafter; Fowke speculated he continued as a sailor. According to William Wordsworth, the poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" was conceived while he and Coleridge were walking together in the Quantock Hills of Somerset in November 1797. The two were considering the fate of Cain, condemned to wander the earth for killing his brother Abel, for a contemplated joint poetic work. The discussion turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, Shelvocke's ""A Voyage Round the"
"The story's moral is that good fortune may not be all that it seems. An alternative fable concerning a raven and a scorpion is included as a poem by Archias of Mytilene in the Greek Anthology. The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit. Another epigram by Antipater of Thessalonica, dating from the first century BCE, has an eagle carry off an octopus sunning itself on a rock, only to be entangled in its tentacles and fall into the sea, 'losing both its prey and its life’. It was the ""Adagia"""
"sailor's superstition. This concept is prominent in the film """". Friday is considered to be an unlucky day in some cultures, and perhaps the most enduring sailing superstition is that it is unlucky to begin a voyage or 'set sail' on a Friday. However, this superstition is not universal. In the 19th century Admiral William Henry Smyth, writing in his nautical lexicon ""The Sailor's Word-Book"", described Friday as (""Dies Infaustus"" means ""unlucky day"".) This superstition is the root of the well-known urban legend of . Sailors are often reluctant to set sail on Candlemas Day, believing that any voyage begun"
"World by Way of the Great South Sea"", in which the incident of Hatley shooting the albatross is told. ""Much the greatest part of the story was Coleridge's invention"", Wordsworth later wrote, though it was Wordsworth's idea that the main plot device of the narrative should involve the killing of an albatross in the South Sea, for which ""the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime."" Wordsworth soon found their poetic styles incompatible and withdrew from the project, but Coleridge continued. ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" was published in their joint work, ""Lyrical Ballads"","
"lands of Antiquity. Tristan Major has suggested that the passage is an orientalist conflation of biblical and classic material, and that Wulf is to be identified with the mythological Perseus. The riddle describes a mysterious bird that will be bound until Doomsday; it has been bound by Solomon and is feared by the leaders of the Philistines. The final line of the passage names the bird as ""Vasa Mortis"". Robert Menner has argued that ancient Jewish origins on Solomon's struggles with demons are at the heart of the Old English riddle; he identifies the ""Vasa Mortis"" with the demon Asmodeus."
"death. The duration between feedings vary among species and during the stages of development. Small feeds are frequent during the guard phase, but afterward become less frequent. However, each feed can deliver a large amount of energy; both sooty shearwater and mottled petrel chicks have been recorded to double their weight in a single night, probably when fed by both parents. The most important family culturally is the albatrosses, which have been described by one author as ""the most legendary of birds"". Albatrosses have featured in poetry in the form of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous 1798 poem ""The Rime of"
"butler is compared to Nestor of ""The Adventures of Tintin""; a character describes Monday's Noon as exactly how she imagined Jane Austen's Mr Darcy; the Piper is a re-creation of the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin, who with his music led a population of rats from a city, later to do the same to the town's children, whose parents had refused to pay him the promised fee. The Mariner is likely a reference to the title character of the ballad ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both the mariner of the book and the one of"
"young birds and persuaded the government of France to conduct initial testing, but further experimentation stalled. Subsequent attempts to train homing behaviour into swallows and other passerines had difficulty establishing a statistically significant success rate, although the birds have been known to trap themselves repeatedly in order to obtain bait from traps. According to a sailing superstition, swallows are a good omen to those at sea. This probably arose from the fact that swallows are land-based birds, so their appearance informs a sailor that he is close to shore. An old term of venery for swallows is a ""flight"" or"
"The Sick Kite The Sick Kite is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 324 in the Perry Index. Greek versions of this fable are told of the raven (κοραξ) while it is called a kite (""milvus"") in Mediaeval Latin sources. The bird is ill and asks its grieving mother to pray in the temples on its behalf. The mother replies that since it was a robber of the sacrifices there, religious observance would now be of no use. The fable appears in the collection of William Caxton and in many others, generally with a reflection on the uselessness of"
"the poem had shot a bird and suffered misery as a result, though Garth Nix does not specify what type of bird the mariner in his book had shot. In addition, the name ""Artful Loungers"", used for Superior Saturday's servants, may be a reference to ""Artful Dodger"", the name of a street thief in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. References to Dickens and the society wherein he lived are also implied in the personalities of the Piper's Children and in the Denizens' clothes. In ""Drowned Wednesday"", Arthur suggests that a passage may open 'through the wardrobe', which is most likely"
"is being readied for direct international flights. Townspeople living off the coast of Paranas believe turtles that come to die ashore are omens of danger, harbingers of typhoons and ocean-related accidents. The old fisherfolk dare not touch nor disturb these docile creatures because of this superstition. Green sea turtles and Loggerhead turtles frequent some coves off Samar to lay eggs or wade near the shallow areas to explore. Gigantic Loggerhead turtles are especially rare visitors even in the yesteryears. When they come ashore and do not lay eggs, tears flow from their eyes like humans. They would then die as"
"the bird. When the king is presented with the firebird he demands that the archer fetch the Princess Vassilissa so the king may marry her; otherwise, the archer will be killed. The archer goes to the princess' lands and drugs her with wine to bring her back to the king. The king is pleased and rewards the archer; however, when the princess awakes and realizes she is not home she begins to weep. If she is to be married she wants her wedding dress, which is under a rock in the middle of the Blue Sea. Once again the archer"