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Leather Lore
Contents
"Loads of goods for
Men and Women!"
Renaissance and
Medieval Goods
- Armor (men & women),
Belts, Pouches, Mugs,
Games, Jerkins, Bottells,
Cinchers; lots More!
Pirate Stuff
- Belts, Baldrics, Bags,
Gun stuff, much More!
Studded Items
Miscellaneous Stuff
Contact
Information
Ordering
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About Leather Lore
Aida
Album, Photo
Amazon Wear
Armbands
Armor, men's
Armor, women's
Art, custom
Awards & Honors
Bags & Pouches
Bags, Messenger
Baldrics
Bandoliers
Barbarian Headbands
Baycrafters Fayre
Belts
Belts, Medieval
Belts, Pirate
Belt Pouches
Belt, Santa Claus
Belts, Studded
Bertha Brock
Bikini
Blackbeard Harness
Black Rock
Fest
Black Roger
Black Roger's List
of Pirate Movies!
Bodices
Books & Journals
Boot Straps
Bottle Slings
Bottells
Bottell Care
Bracelets
Bracers
Bracers of Gondor
Brethren
of the
Great
Lakes
Bustier
Buttons
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Calendar
Call Me
Candle Slings
Canteen
Captain
Jack's
Captain Morgan
Care of Bottells
Care of Leather
Care of Mugs
Care of Pitch Items
Castlevania
Chain Tops
Checkers
Chess Box
Chokers
Christmas Deadline
Cigarette Cases
Cigar Cases
Cinchers, Waist
Cinema Carousel
Cleaning Leather
Cloaks
Club Wear
Collars
Colors
Contact
Corsets
Credit Card Orders
Crowns
Cuffs
Custom Art
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Dagger Frogge
Deadlines, order
Dead Man's Chest
Decorative Leather
Ded Engine
Derbyshire
Faire
Document Case
Doublets
Dragon Map
Dragon Sightings
Draughts
Drink items
Drinking Horns
E-Mail Us
Employment
Engravings
Entertainers
Face Hoods
Facts about Pirates
Fantasy Pouches
Fender Bibs
Ferry, Lake Express
Films
Fittings
Flags, Pirate
Flask, Leather
Flintlock Holster
Flintlock Skirt Hike
Flintlock Skirt Keeper
Flowers
Folder, Document
Fonts
FrankenFeast
Friends
Frogges, Dagger
Frogges, Sword
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Games
Game Box
George, Sir
Gift Certificates
Gogo's
Gothic, sort of
Greaves
GVRen
Hair Keeps
Halloween Deadline
Halter Tops
Hand Gauntlets
Hand Made
Hard End Bags
Harness, Shoulder
Harness, Sword
Hangings
Headbands
Helms, Medieval
Hike, Skirt
Hike, Skirt w/ Gun
History
Holster, Flintlock
Holster, Mini Skirt Hike
Holster, Mini Skirt Keep
Home
Honors & Awards
Hoods
Horns, Drinking
Horn Care
How to Order
Huntington Ren
Index 2
Insurance, shipping
Interesting Facts
Jacks & Mugs
Jerkins
Journals & Books
Just A
Few MC
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Keeper, Skirt
Keeper, Skirt w/ Gun
Lake Express Ferry
Leather Care
Letter of Marque
Life in the 1500's
Lighter Cases
Links
List of Pirate Movies!
Magical Amulets
Mailing List
Map, Dragon
Marie Griffon
Massacre & Feast
Masks
Masks, Plague
Mayfaire Ren Faire
Medieval
Medieval Belts
Medieval Plague Masks
Medieval Sword Sling
Messenger Bag
Mich Ren Fest
Miscellaneous Items
Morgan, Captain
Movies
Mugs & Jacks
Mug Care
Mug Straps
Musicals
Nasty Bob
National Treasure II
New Jersey Ren
Newsletter Archive
Northwood Ren Fest
Ordering
Order of Red Raven
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Padding, Bracer
Padding, Cuff
Pauldrons
Pentacle Top
Pewter
Phone me!
Photo Album
Pictures
Pilgrim, What Is
Pipe Accessories
Pirate Baldrics
Pirate Belts
Pirate Facts
Pirate Festivals
Pirate Movies, List of
Pirate Stuff
Pitch Care
Plague Masks
Pocket Gun Skirt Hike
Pocket Gun Skirt Keep
Port Washington
Pouches
Promo Pack
Prop Work
Punk
Purses
Ravenwood Castle
Red Raven, order of
Refund Policy
Return Policy
Rings
Roger, Black
Roses
Rum Rack
Rush Orders
Santa Claus Belt
Satchels
Scabbards
Scaled Armor Skirt
Scaled Bracers
Schedule of Events
Screen
She-Ra project
Shiabruck
Shipping
Shoulder Bags
Shoulder Pauldrons
Show Schedule
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SilverLeaf Faire
Sir George
Sizing & Sizes
Skirt, Amazon
Skirt Hike
Skirt Hike w/ Gun
Skirt Keeper
Skirt Keeper w/ Gun
Skirt, Overskirt
Skirt, Scaled Armor
Skirt, Strap Armor
Skullter top
Smoker Accessories
Soft Tops
Spider chain top
St. Valentine's Day
Stage shows
Strap Armor Skirt
Stronghold Faire
Studded Armbands
Studded Belts
Studded Bracelets
Suspenders
Sword Frogges
Sword Harness
Symbols
Symbols, Medieval
Telephone me
Tunics
Val Day
Vambraces
Vendors
Vessel Care
Waist Cinchers
Wallets
Water Bottle Sling
Warrior Harness
Weapon Accessories
"What is Pilgrim?"
Wholesale
Wine Rack
WMRF
Women's Clothing
Wristbands
Write Me
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Davy
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| "What is the
origin of Davy Jones' Locker? I hear it all of the time with reference
made to Pirates and sailors of old, and now with the 'Pirates of the
Caribbean' movies out, I really want to know!" |
| Unfortunately, I've
not been able to find a good clear answer.
Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom
for the bottom of the sea; the resting place of drowned seamen. It is
used as a euphemism for death at sea (to be "sent to Davy Jones'
Locker" for example). Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by
sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas.
The phrase goes back at least two
centuries. First recorded in 1726, Davy Jones eventually became known as
the spirit of the sea. In 1751 his name was mentioned in chapter 15 of
"The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" by Tobias
Smollett: "This same Davy Jones, according
to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the
evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching
among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other
disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted
wretch of death and woe. I'll be damned if it was not Davy Jones
himself. I know him by his saucer eyes, his three rows of teeth and
tail, and the blue smoke that came out of his nostrils." By
1803 sailors were referring to Davy Jones's locker as nautical slang the
"bottom of the sea."
As is common with slang, the
exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. There are
various stories about the origin of the term, usually attempting to
identify a real David Jones. Here are some explanations that I have
found:
- A London pub owner or barkeep
from the ballad 'Jones Ale Is Newe' named David Jones who
used to drug or otherwise incapacitate hapless drinkers, storing
them in his ale locker, until they would find themselves waking up
aboard different Navy ships. These men had been forced into the Navy
by a press gang. A press gang is unit of men under the command of an
officer authorized to force men into military service.
- Duffer Jones, a notoriously
myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
- Davy comes from Duppy, a West
Indian term for ghost; or it comes from Saint David, also known as
Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet
Jonah.
- A euphemism for a "Devil
Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the
ocean.
- Another story tries to
identify him with Jonah of the Old Testament, who spent three days
and three nights in the belly of a great fish; but Jonah survived.
- David Jones, a pirate on the
Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth
Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997
- Yet another theory says that
Davy Jones was a fearsome pirate, who loved to make his captives
walk the plank, so they ended up at the bottom of the sea. Don't
know if it's the same one from the Indian Ocean in the 1630's.
Only the first theory explains
the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, as David Jones is a
common name there.
I'm fairly certain that most of
these stories are folklore. The story of the real Davy Jones remains a
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