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The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge's ballad of a sailor who kills an albatross and is punished with a supernatural voyage, first published in Lyrical Ballads. It draws on maritime superstition and includes a spectral ship on which Death and Life-in-Death play dice.

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