Photos from open sources The name of the famous pirate flag “Jolly Roger” came to us from french. The original flag was red, not black, and was associated with sailors with bloodshed invariably accompanying the attack of corsairs. The French pirates flag was named “Joyeux Rouge”, which in translated means bright red. Later, warped french the name turned into the English “Jolly Roger”, which has come down to us like Jolly Roger.
The first pirate to use a black canvas with crossed bones, there was a certain Emmanuel Vine. True, on his flag were an hourglass is also depicted, meaning that the time of his victims expires slowly. In the future, the pirates did not depict on their flags symbolism of elusive time, leaving only the image white bones and skulls.
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There were a lot of options for a pirate flag. Even now, when the filibusters sailing, have become for us legend, there are more and more variations of the old flag. You probably saw Jolly Roger in Pirates of the Caribbean, specially drawn for Jack’s adventure film series Sparrow
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According to one theory, “Jolly Roger” in the form of a flag with two with white, not crossed stripes, hung in times of epidemics, and used as a warning to stay away from an infected ship away. And only then, changing your look to black, awesome kind of canvas with crossbones or sabers, he became identification mark of corsairs.
The pirate flag was not always openly hung by corsairs on their ships: sea robbers often shot an image “Jolly Roger” and robbed ships under the wrong flags.
And although at the time of piracy of the XVII-XVIII centuries a single, accepted without exception, all filibusters, the flag did not exist, “Merry Roger “managed to become a real symbol of the pirate era – at least for posterity.
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