Superstitions: Sammy the Unlucky

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Superstitions: Sammy the Unlucky

Postby Kilaana » Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:04 pm

An oft-told story in the streets of Sarshel relates how, as a young lad of seventeen, Sammy, after his older brother inherited father's farm, chased him out. This boy went looking for work in Sarshel, finally enlisting as a seaman... And the tale goes on how he enlisted on twelve ships in a row, and all of them sunk without ever leaving the harbor, some still at anchor. All this happened in the single week- it looked as if wood the ships were made from simple fell apart. In all cases, Sammy was on board and survived.

Least to say, he was promptly chased off from the city.

Only to surface again, four years later, with quite a hefty sum of coin, which bought him a house in the better part of the city, with the servants and carriage. Sudden increase of income in Sarshel was connected at the time with the rise in demand for shipping after the Sembian fleet was lost, which pushed that country into decades long crisis.

As far as is known, Sammy stayed off the ships for ever, managing his wealth and becoming one of the wealthiest wheat merchants in Sarshel. His demise came after he tripped during the stroll after the rain - he drowned at last, with his face down in the puddle.

For years, the legend goes that king has, having heard of his bad luck, took him into the service and payed him great wealth to enlist in the Sembian marine. None could explain how a poor country bumpkin could get his hands of enough gold to become one of the wealthiest merchants in the city. What is certain is that Sembians have lost over hundred ships in the single year and in that country there is still tale of "Black Year" of 1280 that persist even today, when ships came apart and sunk in the seas off the coast, with no wind in sight.
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