• Sailors' superstitions are superstitions particular to sailors or mariners, and which traditionally have been common around the world. Some of these beliefs...
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    merchant ships and research vessels. Sailor tattoos have served as protective talismans in sailors' superstitions, records of important experiences, markers...
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    rhyme often repeated by mariners: Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. The concept is over two thousand years...
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    attach superstitions to them anymore. In contrast, the supernatural powers ascribed to black cats were sometimes viewed positively; for example, sailors considering...
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  • Superstitions in Muslim societies Superstition in Judaism Sailors' superstitions Sports-related curses Theatrical superstitions Number of the Beast 11:11 4...
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  • Lucky Penny Superstition — Explained! https://www.southernliving.com/news/good-lucky-penny-superstitions-explained "9 bizarre money superstitions people believe...
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    grow to 12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length. Kraken, as a subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in the modern era in a travelogue...
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  • Theatrical superstitions are superstitions particular to actors or the theatre. William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid...
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    Davy Jones's locker (category Superstitions)
    final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned...
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    Catholicism Crypto-paganism European culture European mythology Sailors' superstitions Ray (2017-05-18). "Why do we knock on wood?". TED-Ed Blog. Retrieved...
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    (disambiguation) Nocebo Profanity Spell (paranormal) Spell (ritual) Superman curse Superstition "Definition of CURSE". Definition of Curse by Merriam-Webster. 2019-07-17...
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    contains alleged superstitions or to all religions by the antireligious. Definitions of the term vary, but they commonly describe superstitions as irrational...
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  • Superstitions have been present in Britain throughout its history. Early modern Britain was a superstitious society, and the superstitions were documented...
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  • Catalina Island, just off the coast of Los Angeles, California. Sailors' superstitions Southern Cross (folk song) Southern Cross (disambiguation) "Music:...
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    management abilities to effectively run their ship. Deck (ship) Sailors' superstitions Keegan, John (1989). The Price of Admiralty. New York: Viking. p...
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    superstitions List of lucky symbols List of bad luck signs Sailors' superstitions Theatrical superstitions Africa Buda Gris-gris Sampy Sleeping child Americas...
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  • In bocca al lupo (category Superstitions)
    theatrical superstition in which wishing a person "good luck" is considered bad luck. The expression is commonly used in Italy off stage, as superstitions and...
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  • Toi toi toi (category Superstitions)
    imminent performance. It is similar to "break a leg" and reflects a superstition that wishing someone "good luck" is in fact bad luck. There are many...
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  • Other nautical fiction and non-fiction tropes include: mutiny, sailors' superstitions, Ahab-like obsessions, and the cliches of the submarine screen genre...
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    Groundhog Day (category Superstitions)
    Catholic and Lutheran churches. In folk religion, various traditions superstitions continue to be linked with the holiday, although this was discouraged...
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    Omamori (category Superstitions of Japan)
    superstitions List of lucky symbols List of bad luck signs Sailors' superstitions Theatrical superstitions Africa Buda Gris-gris Sampy Sleeping child Americas...
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    RootsWeb. Radford, Edwin; Radford, Mona A. (2004). Encyclopedia of Superstitions 1949. Kessinger Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-4179-7655-3. Brooks Picken...
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  • producer "Am I Dreaming" (feat. Miley Cyrus) Composer, producer "Sailor's Superstition" Serpentwithfeet Deacon Composer, producer "Life Is Not the Same"...
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    Chicory (redirect from Blue sailors)
    blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons...
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  • the superstition in his short story 'The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet'. Urban legend Brasch, Rudolph (1966). How Did It Begin? Customs, Superstitions, and...
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  • spy hole in the gravestone. Siren (mythology) Sea monster Mermaid Sailors' superstitions Kelpie Mami Wata Undine Oceanid Nereid Rusalka Ceasg Melusine Finfolk...
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    with a windlass, signifying his patronage of sailors. Erasmus may have become the patron saint of sailors because he is said to have continued preaching...
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    an upper and a lower deck. A trip with a lecture including the sailors' superstitions takes about an hour. Open pit lignite mine Cospuden in July 1993...
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    ship was bound for Oporto in Portugal. Despite the longstanding sailors' superstition that it was bad luck to bring a woman on board, Reed had brought...
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