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The spirits of and .

The spirits of Montecuhzoma and Cortés.

"I say that we throw the dress overboard and we hope the spirit follows it."
"No! That will just anger the spirit, sir. What we need to do is find out what the spirit needs, and then just get it back to her."
―Bursar and Quartermaster[src]

Spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. The word "spirit" was often used metaphysically to refer to the consciousness or personality. The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.

History

"That dress. Where did you get it?"
"It was found aboard the ship. The crew it thought it was a spirit bringing some omen of ill fate."
"That's foolish."
―Will Turner and Bellamy[src]

When the young adventurer Captain Jack Sparrow and the crew of the Barnacle found the legendary Sword of Cortés on Isla Fortuna, Sparrow unintentionally summoned the ghostly spirit of Hernán Cortés, the corrosive conquistador who destroyed the Aztec Empire and the original owner of the Sword, risen from the dead.[1] Cortés tried to trick Sparrow into doing his bidding, so the spirit could make himself ruler of the Seven Seas, but with some advice from the mystic Tia Dalma, Jack was able to summon the spirit of the Aztec Emperor Montecuhzoma, who attacked and destroyed Cortés.[2]

During the quest for Kerma, Jack Sparrow brought the long lost members of the Kerman royal family, Prince Shabako and Princess Amenirdis, back to the legendary island. When the island's regent, Queen Tiyy, learned from her children about the death of her husband, Pharaoh Taharka, at the hands of the rogue pirates, she wondered how could the gods receive his spirit without the proper burial rites.[3]

When Elizabeth Swann sneaked onboard the Edinburgh Trader as a sailor, she tricked the superstitious crewmen into thinking that her wedding dress was a spirit to force them to sail the ship to Tortuga.[4] During the quest to rescue Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl from Davy Jones' Locker, the crew of the Black Pearl sailed through the Sea of the Damned, where they saw the spirits and souls of those who died at sea.[5]

Behind the scenes

The term "spirit" was first used in the souvenir book for Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, though was used to describe either a liquid or substance,[6] as well as a specified quality, emotion or mood.[7] Spirits as the nonphysical part of a person or a supernatural being manifested as an apparition after their death, or a ghost, first appeared in the three-part comic "The Buccaneer's Heart!" from Disney Adventures, published in 2004, featured Jack Sparrow and Will Turner meeting the "spirits of the pirates of the Caribbean" consisting of the ghosts of Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Captain Bartholomew Roberts, Captain Henry Morgan, and Mary Reade.[8] However, "The Buccaneer's Heart!" has since been considered non-canon due to the appearance of a still-living Blackbeard in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,[9] suggested by Tim Powers' 1987 novel On Stranger Tides, which also featured spirits.[10]

Although the movie storybook and video game adaptation for the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has Jack Sparrow visited by the ghostly spirit of Bootstrap Bill Turner when he received the Black Spot,[11] and the movie storybook described Davy Jones as an evil sea spirit,[12] the film itself portrayed the character as cursed undead crewmen.[4] Spirits first appeared through the spirit of Hernán Cortés in the Rob Kidd book Jack Sparrow: The Pirate Chase,[1] setting up a more prominent role in Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés.[2]

The spirit of Calypso was meant to appear in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned.[13] But, since that game was cancelled, it is unknown if Calypso's appearance in the game is canon or not.

In Jeff Nathanson's early 2013 screenplay draft of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the story featured Captain John Brand of the British Navy, a ghost who dwelled in the haunted waters of the Devil's Triangle with the crew of the Silent Mary and was described as a spirit who would not rest until he had his revenge on Jack Sparrow for the death of his brother Eric.[14] By the final version of the film, the ghost of the Captain John Brand was developed into Armando Salazar, a pirate hunter for the Spanish Navy and a cursed ghost.[15]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jack Sparrow: The Pirate Chase
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés
  3. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Fifteen: Kerma
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  5. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  6. ↑ Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World, p. 13
  7. ↑ Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World, p. 28
  8. ↑ Disney Adventures: "The Buccaneer's Heart!"
  9. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  10. ↑ On Stranger Tides
  11. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
  12. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: The Movie Storybook
  13. ↑ New 'Pirates of the Caribbean' game sets stage for Jack Sparrow - Plugged In - Yahoo! Games - Archived
  14. ↑ Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Jeff Nathanson, second draft, 5/6/2013
  15. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales