sea legends
Sailors' supernatural stories
Sea legends are traditional stories about maritime mysteries, monsters, and supernatural events—tales of ghost ships, mermaids, krakens, and cursed voyages passed down among sailors.
The phrase also refers to famous seafarers themselves: Blackbeard remains one of the great sea legends.
Video games and other media use the term for nautical adventure themes.
- Bermuda TriangleLegendary Atlantic danger zone
- lost citySettlement swallowed by time
- ghost shipsUnmanned vessels found adrift
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
- selkiesSeal-to-human transformers
Davy Jones' locker · watery grave · Charybdis · sirens · siren song · mermaids · Blackbeard · Lemuria · leviathan · kraken · water nymphs · Scylla · Moby Dick · Mary Celeste · Captain Kidd · Viking longships · drowned · sunken ships
- folktalesfolktales, animal fables, folktale, moral fables, fairy tales
- nauticalanchor, anchor chain, anchors, boat, boats
- sea in literatureMoby Dick, ocean voyages, seafaring tales, whaling, Odyssey
- sea literatureTreasure Island, Moby Dick, 20000 Leagues, Life of Pi, Billy Budd
- sea poetrysailor songs, Dover Beach, Old Ironsides, siren songs
- maritimeships, ship, boat, boats, anchors