What is the legend of Davy Jones? (Not the Singer, the pirate)?

Question

Does anyone know the legend of Davy Jones? You know "Davey Jones Locker". Or if you know of any websites or books that might have some information. Thank you much!

Answer 1

I don't think it's just a legend. I'm a believer.

Answer 2

Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker")[1]; Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas. His origins are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including incompetent sailors, a pub owner who kidnapped sailors, or that Davy Jones is another name for the devil. Davy Jones has also been known to give captured sailors a chance to serve him for 100 years instead of dying.

Answer 3

There isn't much I could find, but from memory, Davy Jones is supposed to be court scribe to Neptunis Rex, King of the raging mane. He records the names of all the sailors that drown or just plain die at sea. Davy Jones locker refers to the bottom of the sea. There is also something about him creating storms at sea, but I don't think this has much to do with the legend. And ya, what the guy above me said.

Answer 4

Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker"); Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas.

Origin
The earliest known reference to Davy Jones occurs in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751:

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
He is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.

The term appears to have been common among sailors, as the name Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature.

As is common with slang, the exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. These explanations have been proposed:

A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate helpless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.
Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
Davy comes from Duffy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet Jonah.
A euphemism for a "Devil Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the ocean.
David Jones, a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997
Only the first theory explains the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, where David Jones is a common name.

Answer 5

Davy Jones is another way of saying the Devil or Satan

Answer 6

Davy Jones is supposed to be the devil of the sea.... Superstious sailors have alot of such stories tho.

Answer 7

I use to know it i think when i was in 4th grade we talked about pirates.

Answer 8

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones'_Locker
Try this.

Answer 10

no i dunno