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"You will be going with us, mon ami, non?"
"No. Once all your men's cells are unlocked, I'm taking those keys and scuttling out of here as fast as a crab on a white sand beach, Christophe."

―Christophe-Julien de Rapièr and Jack Sparrow^[src]

A crab was a 10-legged animal that walked sideways. The foremost legs were in the form of claws. Most crabs lived in the oceans, but many lived on land.

HistoryEdit

"I'm in need of a few things. An Undead Whitchdoctor took my favorite crab recipe. Recover it for me, along with some o' that sweet crab meat, of course."

―Gil Derga to a pirate^[src]

During the early 18th century, crabs could be found on many islands in the Caribbean. Steamed and buttered crabs were one of Jack Sparrow's favorite meals.^[1] When Jack found the body of One Tooth Tommy in Shipwreck Cove, a bunch of crabs were already beginning to eat the corpse.^[2]

More than ten years later, when Jack Sparrow and Will Turner rowed inside the caves of Isla de Muerta to save Elizabeth Swann from Hector Barbossa's cursed crew, they saw a crab near the skeleton of a dead pirate.^[3] A year later, when Bootstrap Bill Turner came onboard the Black Pearl to give the Black Spot to Jack, he caught and ate a tiny little crab.^[4]

With a clatter of crab claws on a rough wooden table, the voodoo mystic Tia Dalma used crab claws as they hold unfathomable powers, revealing a person's fate and spelling out your destiny, despite their fears.^[4] With crab claws, Tia Dalma could see what ordinary mortals could not by gently throw the claws on the table and "reads" their positions.^[5]

Behind the scenesEdit

"Perfect. What would my torment be without unusual crabs here to mock me."

―Jack Sparrow^[src]

• In the original Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean, there was a skeleton sprawled on the beach, with a crab nearby, located within a treasure-filled cavern in Dead Man's Cove. This was adapted into a quick shot on Isla de Muerta in a scene from The Curse of the Black Pearl.

AppearancesEdit

• Pirates of the Caribbean (ride)
• Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
• The Price of Freedom
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (First appearance)
• Pirates of the Caribbean Online
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)

External linksEdit

• Crab on Wikipedia

Notes and referencesEdit