Sailor Superstitions
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Avast! What’s that on the horizon? Unlucky bananas, gold hoop earrings, and sons of guns; it must be sailor superstitions! Trim the sails and come on this voyage with us as we suss out the origins of legends taught to every sailor.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, drowning, misogyny, boating accidents/capsizing, labor violations, funerals/burials, objectification of women, starvation, scurvy, corporal punishment, pregnancy/birth, storms/lightning, and suffocation.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome the Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.9 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is episode 194, Sailor Superstitions. |
| 0:12.8 | Oh, hell yeah. |
| 0:13.7 | I have a great story as to why we did this one, but you have to wait until we get into the episode to find that out. I loved this episode and I've been thinking about it in the |
| 0:21.3 | stormy days since we've recorded it. Yes, it has been a bit of a stormy couple of days, but honestly, |
| 0:27.9 | I kind of like it. It's better than being hot all the time. So true. And do you know, Julia, |
| 0:33.7 | who are always the perfect temperature? Is it our new patrons? Our new patrons. Jordan, Zara, |
| 0:39.1 | Daisy, and Alyssa. Welcome, and thank you so, so much for your support. You join the ranks of our |
| 0:44.6 | distinguished supporting producer-level patrons. Philip, Alicia, Deborah Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Gigan, |
| 0:50.7 | Landon, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Molly, Mr. Volk,, Neil, Nicky, Phil Fresh, Polly, Sarah, and Skyla. |
| 0:57.0 | And Amanda, do you know who always has a frozen margarita in hand? Sometimes they're virgin. I don't judge. |
| 1:02.1 | Is it our legend level patrons, Audra Avonlea, Chelsea, Clara, Donald, Drew, Eden, Francis, Jack, Marie, Josie, Lada, Mark Morgan, Necrowfancy, Sarah, and Bami up Scotty. |
| 1:11.2 | It is. They even sometimes have those avocado ones that are like kind of creamy because you add full |
| 1:15.6 | chunks of avocado into it. Oh, dang. Yeah. Let's try that. Delicious. And Julia, this weekend, |
| 1:21.2 | I spent some time up on my roof trying to soak in a day that was just under 85, which is rare these days. And I was listening to a new |
| 1:31.3 | podcast that I thought I'd recommend to all of you today. Ooh, what is it? This is called Black in |
| 1:35.2 | Appalachia. I had the great pleasure of working with a couple of these hosts back in January |
| 1:39.3 | at a class I gave. And it is a fantastic show. It's part of a broader project that includes |
| 1:45.0 | like community events and photography. And you can find all of those along with the brand new |
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