According to the North-European folklore, The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that sails the seas forever aimlessly, and which prevents a tragedy back home. It is often sighted from a distance, shrouded in a mist or a light emanating spectral. The sailors of the ship are ghosts, sometimes trying to communicate with people on the mainland. The story was later reinterpreted and became famous throughout Europe by Richard Wagner, the opera The Flying Dutchman (1841), and by the writer Washington Irving in The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea (1855).
According to some sources, the model is the Dutch captain Bernard Fokke, in the seventeenth century was shuttling between Holland and the island of Java (in Indonesia), at a rate so amazing, to be suspected of having made a pact with the devil. Falkenburg was appointed captain in the Dutch version of the story, Vanderdecken version of Marryat Ramhout van Dam and in that of Irving. It is not known if the name "Flying Dutchman" refers to the ship or its capitano.Varie versions describe the cause of this fate. One of these, the captain would have sworn, in the middle of a storm, however, want to pass the Cape of Good Hope, also sailing forever, if necessary. More talk about a horrible crime committed on board, sailors or infected by the plague and thus exempt dall'attracco in any port, in both cases, the vessel is destined to sail forever.
Alcuni hanno notato delle somiglianze con la storia dell'Ebreo errante, appartenente al folklore cristiano.
Una leggenda simile a quella dell'Olandese Volante fa parte della tradizione dell'isola cilena di Chiloé: ne è protagonista il Caleuche, di una nave fantasma che naviga la notte nei dintorni dell'isola.
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