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The souls of those who died at sea lost in Davy Jones' Locker.

"You have my payment. One soul to serve on your ship is already over there."
"One soul is not equal to another."
"Aha! So we've established my proposal is sound in principle, now we're just haggling over price."
"Price?"
"Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?"
"One hundred souls. Three days.
"
Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones[src]

The soul, in many mythological, religious, philosophical, and psychological traditions, was the incorporeal and, in many conceptions, immortal essence of a person, living thing, or object. According to some religions (including the Abrahamic religions in most of their forms), souls—or at least immortal souls capable of union with the divine—belonged only to human beings.

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Bo Beck's death

Jolly Roger devours the soul of Bo Beck.

"Ah, there I be again, forgetting why the missionary was here. My daughter fears for my soul, what's left of it. You truly wish to save me, my child."
"Every soul can be saved.
"
Blackbeard and Angelica[src]

When the sea goddess Calypso fell in love with a sailor named Davy Jones, she gave him a ship, the Flying Dutchman, to ferry the souls of those who died at sea to afterlife.[1] Many years later, during the Age of Piracy, when the Flying Dutchman became an infamous ghost ship, many believed that its timbers were cut out from the bodies and souls of doomed seamen.[2]

In the 1710s, when the EITC captain Jack Sparrow sank with his ship, the Wicked Wench, he sold his soul to Jones, who raised his ship from the bottom of the sea.[3] Some time later, after Jack Sparrow became the Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea, the infamous pirate captain Jolly Roger tried to steal his Piece of Eight in a poker match. When Roger failed and shot his partner in crime, the voodoo witch doctor Amo Dorsi, Dorsi cursed Roger with his last breath, turning him into the undead, soul-devouring creature.[4]

Pirates vs souls

The souls of Palaimon's victims attack Hector Barbossa's cursed crew.

After their mutiny on the Black Pearl, Hector Barbossa's crew fell under the Curse of the Aztec Gold, and began a quest to lift the curse. At some point in their pursuit, Barbossa's crew discovered a young castaway who claimed to be Juan Ponce de León, the conquistador who searched for the Fountain of Youth. Barbossa believed his tale and set forth for the Fountain, only to discover the young man's tale to be false. He was actually Palaimon, a demonic Greek god who fed on sailor's souls. Palaimon then summoned his army of souls and Barbossa's men were unable to hurt them, but Barbossa managed to defeat Palaimon by forcing him to fall into the sea.[5]

In the late 1720s, when Davy Jones came for Jack Sparrow's debt, Jack attempted to give Jones Will Turner's soul, but ended up having to collect 99 more souls for Jones.[6] During the War Against Piracy, when the Motley crew, led by Hector Barbossa, came to Davy Jones' Locker to save the Jack and the Black Pearl, Pintel and Ragetti saw dozens of lost souls in the endless seas of Davy Jones' Locker.[7] In 1750, during the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Angelica wanted to find the legendary Fountain to save the soul of her father, the infamous pirate Blackbeard, though the missionary Philip Swift believed that Blackbeard's soul was beyond saving.[8] When Carina Smyth saw Armando Salazar and his crew of ghosts on the shore of Hangman's Bay, she thought of them as grotesque souls.[9]

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"My soul I do swear, for a breeze. A gust, A whisper. A kiss..."
Jack Sparrow[src]

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