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Sailors' superstitions are superstitions particular to sailors or mariners, and which traditionally have been common around the world. Some of these beliefs are popular superstitions, while others are better described as traditions, stories, folklore , tropes , myths, or legends .
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The concept is over two thousand years old and is cited in the New Testament as established wisdom that prevailed among the Jews of the 1st century AD by Jesus in Matthew 16:2-3 .
"Sailor Song" is a song by American singer-songwriter Gigi Perez, released as a single on July 26, 2024. Her third independent track following her release from Interscope Records, it went viral on TikTok and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Sailor Song" topped the charts in Ireland, Latvia, and the ...
"Early, Early in the Spring" (Roud 152, Laws M1) is a British folk song that has been collected from traditional singers in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the United States. It tells the story of a sailor gone to sea whose beloved promises to wait for him.
Superstition says that if you kiss someone who gives you goosebumps when the clock hits 12, your love will last all year long. Carry an empty suitcase. If one of your New Year’s resolutions is ...
The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809–1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839. [1] It was recorded in Charles Harding Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads (1908) in a slightly different form from the one popularized in cinema, where its opening verse has been omitted, and with quatrain stanzas instead of couplets.
A German version of the song was composed on verses of Martell under the title "Des Seemanns Los" (The Sailor's Fate). The song has been recorded by J. W. Myers (1902), Frank Stanley (1907), Gus Reed (Edison Records, 1908), Wilfred Glenn (1913), Al Jolson (1916), Charles Laird (1920), The Mills Brothers (1939), Coleman Hawkins (1940), Pete Daily's Chicagoans (1952), Firehouse Five Plus Two ...
As spooky season unofficially kicks off on Friday, October 13, theGrio revisits common superstitions in the Black diaspora. Black horror […] The post From itchy palms to not cutting a baby’s ...