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Singing to sailing ships slowly makes them sink

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Vocal performances directed at timber vessels are basically structural sabotage. Sailors firmly believed that singing from the docks toward a departing ship mimicked the legendary call of malicious sirens, slowly dragging the hull downward into the abyss.

Singing to sailing ships slowly makes them sink
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