Add to ORKGSailors short of money for beer & whiskey decide to pretend one is dead (the black cook) & sell his body to a doctor for 50 guineas [sic]. When the doctor goes to dissect him the cook hollers that he will eat him alive. Dr. runs off in terror thinking it is the devil. Last verse a warning to others Drs. to beware [sic] of dead sailors.Peacock, Vol III, 856-857; Mercer: Peacock, 856; Ives, "Northeast Folklore", 7, 1965, 84-87; Fowke, "Ontario", 26-27
The Sailor Boy is a version of the 18th century British Broadside, The Sailor\u27s Tragedy or Th...
A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.https://egrove.olemi...
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse: "What mournefull ditty, or lamenting verse ..."In two parts, separated...
Story of a black cook who was a good scrounge. Shipmates try to sell his body (at his suggestion) w...
Ship's black cook is sold to doctor who thinks him dead. Cook jumps up before dissection [sic] and ...
A merchant vessel is threatened by pirates. The captain entices the hero to scuttle (sp?) the pirate...
A sailor is tricked into sleeping with a corpse and has his money stolen.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/...
Cre sells black cook for dead, he, alive, escapes for evening or revelryMercer: Peacock, III, 856-85...
A captain lies to a dying sailor.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2262/thumbnail.jp
June 27. Clear, calm, bright – the most nearly cloudless day of the cruise, only a few faint wisps ...
Schooner "Maggie" is run down and sunk in collision with a steamship off the Narrows. Thirteen are d...
Narrator recounts his career as a pirate aboard the Flying Cloud; at last he is captured and condemn...
The "John Harvey" commanded by Capt. Kelly is wrecked in January 1912. A sailor swims ashore with a ...
Man leads woman astray and kills her; when he is at sea her ghost (and their baby's ghost) haunts th...
A Review of Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette a...
The Sailor Boy is a version of the 18th century British Broadside, The Sailor\u27s Tragedy or Th...
A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.https://egrove.olemi...
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse: "What mournefull ditty, or lamenting verse ..."In two parts, separated...
Story of a black cook who was a good scrounge. Shipmates try to sell his body (at his suggestion) w...
Ship's black cook is sold to doctor who thinks him dead. Cook jumps up before dissection [sic] and ...
A merchant vessel is threatened by pirates. The captain entices the hero to scuttle (sp?) the pirate...
A sailor is tricked into sleeping with a corpse and has his money stolen.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/...
Cre sells black cook for dead, he, alive, escapes for evening or revelryMercer: Peacock, III, 856-85...
A captain lies to a dying sailor.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2262/thumbnail.jp
June 27. Clear, calm, bright – the most nearly cloudless day of the cruise, only a few faint wisps ...
Schooner "Maggie" is run down and sunk in collision with a steamship off the Narrows. Thirteen are d...
Narrator recounts his career as a pirate aboard the Flying Cloud; at last he is captured and condemn...
The "John Harvey" commanded by Capt. Kelly is wrecked in January 1912. A sailor swims ashore with a ...
Man leads woman astray and kills her; when he is at sea her ghost (and their baby's ghost) haunts th...
A Review of Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette a...
The Sailor Boy is a version of the 18th century British Broadside, The Sailor\u27s Tragedy or Th...
A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.https://egrove.olemi...
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse: "What mournefull ditty, or lamenting verse ..."In two parts, separated...
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