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- "I say that we throw the dress overboard and we hope the spirit follows it."
"No! That will just anger the spirit, sir. What we need to do is find out what the spirit needs, and then just get it back to her." - ―Bursar and Quartermaster
Spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. The word "spirit" was often used metaphysically to refer to the consciousness or personality. The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.
History[]
- "That dress. Where did you get it?"
"It was found aboard the ship. The crew it thought it was a spirit bringing some omen of ill fate."
"That's foolish." - ―Will Turner and Bellamy
At some point during the early 18th century, when the young adventurer Jack Sparrow and his crew found the legendary Sword of Cortés on Isla Fortuna, they unintentionally summoned the spirit of the conquistador Hernán Cortés, the original owner of the Sword and the man who destroyed the Aztec Empire. The ghostly Spaniard tried to trick Jack Sparrow into doing his bidding for him, so he could make himself ruler of the Seven Seas, but with the few advices from the voodoo witch Tia Dalma, Jack was able to summon the spirit of the Aztec Emperor Montecuhzoma, who attacked and destroyed Cortés.[1]
During the quest for Kerma, Jack Sparrow brought the long lost members of the Kerman royal family, Prince Shabako and Princess Amenirdis, back to the legendary island. When the island's regent, Queen Tiyy, learned from her children about the death of her husband, Pharaoh Taharka, at the hands of the rogue pirates, she wondered how could the gods receive his spirit without the proper burial rites.[2]
When Elizabeth Swann sneaked onboard the Edinburgh Trader as a sailor, she tricked the superstitious crewmen into thinking that her wedding dress was a spirit to force them to sail the ship to Tortuga.[3] While rescuing Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker, the crew of the Black Pearl saw the spirits and souls of those who died at sea.[4]
Behind the scenes[]
- The main villain of Jeff Nathanson's early Dead Men Tell No Tales script was Captain John Brand, the restless spirit of a British pirate hunter who swore revenge on Jack Sparrow for the death of his brother Eric. The character was eventually replaced with Armando Salazar.[5]
Appearances[]
- Jack Sparrow: The Pirate Chase (First appearance)
- Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés
- The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (First mentioned)
- Banshee's Boon
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Ghost Ship
- The Buccaneer's Heart! (Non-canonical appearance)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War