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Show r------------ Take Mq UW ji !j For It 1 i Jl By FRANK COLBY lj HOW DID IT START? ... , Q. Who was "Davy Jones" and what is meant by his "locker"? A. In nautical lore, Davy Jones has long been spoken of as the evil spirit of the sea. The name is supposed sup-posed to be a corruption of Duppy Jonah. Duppy, a word used among Negroes of the West Indies, designates desig-nates a malevolent haunting spirit. And Jonah, of course, refers to the Jonah of the New Testament; his name has become a synonym for a person or thing that causes bad luck. Davy Jones's locker Is the bottom of thesea. Of lost ships or drowned seamen, it is said that they have gone to Davy Jones's locker. Q. How did the Mardl Gras ,-iaP-nival of New Orleans get its name? A. Mardi gras is French for "fat Tuesday." It refers to Shrove Tuesday, Tues-day, which is the day before the beginning be-ginning of Lent, therefore, the last day of feasting. In France a fat (gras) ox was ceremoniously paraded parad-ed through the streets. In New Orleans the carnival of Mardi Gras ends on Shrove Tuesday. Tues-day. "King Rex," accompanied by his "Mystick Krewe of Comus'," appears ap-pears in the spectacular parade of floats, and is later unmasked at the Mardi Gras ball. In Roman Catholic countries the carnival is a period of festivals and merrymaking preceding Lent. The carnival takes its name from the Latin phrase carne vale, meaning, "O flesh, farewell!" an illusion to the putting aside of carnal things during the Lenten season. (Carnal is from the Latin carnis, which meant originally "a piece of meat.") Bell Syndicate. WNTJ Features. |