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Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Flying dutch man

According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never be anchored, but it must wade "seven seas" forever. Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance, sometimes illuminated by dim light highlight.
Many versions of this story. According to some sources, this legend came from the Netherlands, while others claim that it had come from England play The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel "The Phantom Ship" (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted into story of the Dutch "Het Schip Vliegend" (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch priest AHC Romer.
Other versions include the opera by Richard Wagner (1841) and "The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea by Washington Irving (1855).


Some reliable sources said that in the 17th century named Dutch captain Bernard Fokke (another version called the captain "Ramhout Van Dam" or "Van der Decken") across the sea from Holland to Java with incredible speed.He is suspected of asking for help to achieve a speed demon earlier. But amid his voyage towards the Cape of God Hope sudden bad weather, so the shaky ship. Then a crew requested that the voyage terminated.
But the captain did not want to, then he said: "I swear I will not retreat and will continue through the storm to reach the city destination, or I and all the crew of my ship will damned forever" All of a sudden storm hit the ship so that they lost against nature.
And cursed forever The Captain with his son that his ship into the bodies of living and sailing on the seven seas for eternity.That said, the ship was condemned to sail the seven oceans until the end of time. then the story was spread very rapidly throughout the world.

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