Mysteries of the deep: the Flying...
Mysteries of the deep: the Flying Dutchman
Edmund Griffiths — talks by Edmund Griffiths
Sep 17, 2026
41:13
Episode notes

13 August 2020

Image: The Flying Dutchman (detail), by Charles Temple Dix. In the talk I mention a handout with a sketch map—that isn't included here, but any map of South Africa showing Table Bay and Cape Agulhas will do just as well (if you want to remind yourself where those places are). N.B. The colony of Dutch Ceylon in fact fell to the British in 1796, not 1795 as I say here.

Keywords
folklore
superstition
curse
Captain Frederick Marryat
William Clark Russell
Heinrich Heine
Richard Wagner
Dutch East India Company
imperialism