His body, while being transported home, is thought to have been thrown overboard by superstitious sailors when their ship nearly sank in a storm.

She and Inthaban feud and their fights cause storms, according to superstitious sailors.

Their screams haunted the superstitious sailors for the rest of the voyage.

In the confusion sure to break out among the superstitious sailors, Peters and Augustus, helped by Tiger, will take over the ship again.

For the notoriously superstitious sailors on board Wager this was awful news to hear, and as was to turn out, an accurate prophecy.

The superstitious sailors who regarded the great white whale as "not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time)" turn out to have been spectacularly right.

That included calming superstitious sailors, since the captain's authority was second only to God.

To this end, superstitious sailors in the 19th century demanded that others pay the Klabautermann respect.

The albatross is a bird which superstitious sailors feel is bad luck to kill.

A superstitious sailor might have classed it as an appearance of the Flying Dutchman, reputed haunter of the high seas.