Sailors' superstitions "Souda" (modern Lefkai). Another mythological creature, the Scylla, is a similar female sea demon that is both dangerous yet beautiful. Sirens supposedly "lured mariners to their deaths with their melodious, enchanting song", while "Scylla sent countless sailors to the depths of the sea." The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's well-known poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It is considered very unlucky to kill an albatross; in Coleridge's poem, the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually force him to wear the dead bird around his neck. Having bananas on a ship,
Hello in publications as early as 1803. The word "hullo" is still in use, with the meaning "hello". "Hello" is alternatively thought to come from the word "hallo" (1840) via "hollo" (also "holla", "holloa", "halloo", "halloa"). The definition of "hollo" is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted: Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864. It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written in 1798: In many Germanic languages, including German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans,