The Flying Dutchman: A Complete History - Mythillogical Podcast

On our second ever solo episode, Charles takes a deep dive into the briny seas of the 18th century, to track the origins of the phantom ship of legend. Over the course of a hundred years of voyaging we'll watch the slow development of the Dutchman from merely an unfortunate vessel doomed by storms and plague, to an ill omen for all who encounter her.

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Sources for this episode include:

'Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman' - Agnes Andeweg of Maastricht University

'In Search of the Dutch Lore of the Land: Old and New Legends throughout the Netherlands’ by Theo Meder

‘Don’t Shoot the Albatross’ by Jonathan Eyers

'A voyage to Botany Bay' attributed to George Barrington

'Travels in various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards' by John MacDonald

'Scenes of Infancy' by John Leyden

‘Written on Passing Dead-Man’s Island’ by Thomas Moore

'Rokeby' by Walter Scott

'Vanderdecken’s Message Home' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (author likely John Howison)

'The Storm Ship' and 'The Adventure of the Black Fisherman' by Washington Irving

'Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski' by Heinreich Heine

‘The Wild Hunter, The Wandering Jew and the Flying Dutchman’ by J. Drew Stephen

‘The Flying Dutchman, the Wandering Jew, and Wagner's Anti-Semitism’ by Stephen McClatchie

‘The Legend of the Wandering Jew’ by George K. Anderson

‘The Phantom Ship’ by Frederick Marryat

'History of the British Colonies, vol. 4' by Martin R. Montgomery

‘The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882.’ by John N. Dalton

'Round About Rambles in Lands of Fancy and Fact' by Frank R. Stockton