This figure’s name may derive from a folk song describing “jovial” men demanding beer at a time when “ale was new.” According to Webster’s Second, the enslaved Bube (“boo-bay”) people of Fernando Po considered this figure a Bantu duppy ghost. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle describes this figure with three rows of teeth and blue smoke emerging from his nostrils during hurricanes. Shellbacks dressed as a king, a queen, and this figure watch as “Pollywogs” drink hot sauce and aftershave “truth serums” in drag ceremonies celebrating the crossing of the equator. In some stories, this figure was a barkeep who kept drunkards in ale cases before selling them into slavery. Welsh pirates may have derived this figure’s name from their patron saint and the name of a biblical prophet who spent three days in a fish. For 10 points, sailors feared dying and becoming trapped in what figure’s underwater “locker”? ■END■
ANSWER: Davy Jones [accept Davy Jones’s locker; prompt on Davy or Jones] (The third line refers to the U.S. Navy’s line-crossing ceremony.)
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