Reading through the latest Folklore Thursday contributions I'm once again filled with a strange sense of loss b/c we have to interpret some practices as warding off 'evil spirits' and it's a shame we can't get more particular than that. I wish I could know the *specifics* of it
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Yeah I'd love to know the actual Origins of the ones sailors still use. Eg every US navy ship still has a coin put under its mast when it's built. SUPPOSEDLY it goes back to ancient Greece, and the coin pays the fare across the Styx for sailors killed if the ship sinks.
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Also to so much as mention a pig on a ship is bad luck. Why? Fucked if I know, but I refused to say "pig" onboard my ships just the same.
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