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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Phantom Ship

by Frederick Marryat

A Gothic sea novel by a former Royal Navy captain, in which Philip Vanderdecken spends his life seeking to release his father, captain of the Flying Dutchman, from his curse. It helped fix the legend in nineteenth-century popular literature.

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