Jonah

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Jonah

Postby dreams » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:44 pm

Meaning: One who brings ill fortune, especially on a sea voyage.

Jonah 1:12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

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Postby dreams » Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:05 pm

"What's that?" said Harvey. "What's a Jonah?"

"A Jonah's anything that spoils the luck. Sometimes it's a man -
sometimes it's a boy - or a bucket. I've known a splittin'-knife
Jonah two trips till we was on to her," said Tom Plait. "There's
all sorts o' Jonahs. Jim Bourke was one till he was drowned on
Georges. I'd never ship with Jim Bourke, not if I was starvin'.
There wuz a green dory on the Ezra Flood. Thet was a Jonah too,
the worst sort o' Jonah. Drowned four men she did, an' used to
shine fiery o' nights in the nest."

Rudyard Kipling, Captain's Courageous


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