HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
SEACOAST SUPERSTITIONS
This is an abstract of a
column by Imogene Burch “Are You Superstitious” , about
seacoast superstitions,
from the El Paso Herald, Saturday, November 8, 1919. It
is
history because it was
written almost 100 years ago and mentions Cape Henlopen.
The water men of Cape
Henlopen at one time held that the morning fog carries the
souls
of the unstable human
beings which were neither good nor bad during their lives and
there is no heaven nor hell
for them so they must float forever in the mist and fog, unable
to find rest anywhere.
The great sand dunes of
the cape are there and moving south because a pirate ship
wrecked
on the Cape Henlopen beach
and the buccaneers were given a Christian burial and the
angry sea sent the living
sand hills to punish the sacrilege.
Another belief along the
coast is that a death always takes place on the turn of the tides
and the soul goes out
with the seas.
Abstract: Saturday,
November 8, 1919, El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, Imogene
Burch, writer of
“Are You Superstitious? “ column.
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