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7:33pm March 21, 2013
piousbird: In Germany, Belgium, and Holland, it was once believed that faeries called Kaboutermannekes (water fairies) dwelt in the figureheads.The spirit guarded the ship from sickness, rocks, storms, and dangerous winds. If the ship sank, the Kaboutermannekes guided the sailors’ souls to the Land of the Dead. To sink without a Kaboutermanneke condemned the sailor’s soul to haunt the sea forever, or so Dutch sailors believed. 

piousbird:

In Germany, Belgium, and Holland, it was once believed that faeries called Kaboutermannekes (water fairies) dwelt in the figureheads.The spirit guarded the ship from sickness, rocks, storms, and dangerous winds. If the ship sank, the Kaboutermannekes guided the sailors’ souls to the Land of the Dead.

To sink without a Kaboutermanneke condemned the sailor’s soul to haunt the sea forever, or so Dutch sailors believed. 

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