St. Thomas Becket Academy & High School Library

Superstitions of the sea

James Clary

Superstitions of the sea - St. Clair, Mich. Maritime History in Art ©1994


How maritime superstitions began
Animals
Beginning a voyaga, bells, boasting, building a vessel, burial
Calming storms, cargo, charms, coins, colors, creatures of the sea
Day, death, deities, devils, disaster, dreams, drowning
Equator crossing, evil eyes
Figureheads, fishing, flags, food
Games, ghosts, grooming
Heavenly signs, hexes
Icebergs, insects, islands
Jewelry, jinxes, Jonahs
Knives, knots
Launching, luck
Marriage, mermaids and mermen
Names, navigation, numbers
Offerings, omens
Patron saints, piracy, punishment
Regions feared, rescue
Saluting, sea, sea monsters, sickness
Tattoos, traditions
Unlucky ships
Vikings
Weather, women

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