Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
Cutty Sark (whisky) just before supposedly seducing her. Cutty Sark is often referenced by the main character in Thomas Sherry's novel, "Deep Winter". Rick Drummond keeps a bottle at hand for very special occasions. Other characters immediately recognise how valuable the bottle is when supplies soon become scarce. In Stephen King's short story "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands", published in his collection of short stories "Skeleton Crew", the narrator and his friends drink Cutty Sark as they play poker. Cutty Sark featured in the film "Pawn Sacrifice" (starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky. In the