Mother Carey's Chickens
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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Mother Carey's Chickens is a seafarer's name for
seabirds, the storm petrels (family Hydrobatidae). The name is a corruption of Mater Cara, darling mother. Sailors believed they came to warn them of approaching
storms, and since each bird contained the soul of a drowned seaman it was most unlucky to kill one.
See also
superstitions of sailors.
M. V. Angel
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