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I want to find out what superstitions pirates believe and came across this superstition about wind sellers. This became an international trade. Amazing !
Share any superstitions you believe in or find amazing.

"Witches would sell the wind to sailors in the British Isles and Europe. These wind-sellers sold magic hawsers tied with three knots, said to bring the wind. By the end of the sixteenth century wind selling had grown into an international trade.

According to the book, Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin and Gabriel Kuhn [Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1997], the last European wind-seller was Bessy Miller, a resident of the Orkney Islands. Sea travelers were still paying her tribute in the nineteenth century.

The witches of Finland and Lapland had a reputation for being able to call up winds from the most remote areas. They did a brisk business selling their conjuring skills.

To protect against psychic attack, boatmen in the past attached stones with holes in them to the bows of their boats. The stones were called holy flints. They were made of the same kind of stone as that used to protect houses against witchcraft.

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Magic stones would probably be more effective than trying to use gasoline filled balloons against pirates.....lol.

Bill
What makes the rain go away?? :-( Moldy in Massachusetts
Buy expensive foul weather gear. Guaranteed not to rain for weeks..........

Bill
Did that two years ago..worked like a charm!! :-) Need to go buy more apparently
We'll take that rain off yer hands, ALL ye got. Send it C.O.D.(Convocation Of Deisism)

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