June 7, 1692 11:43 a.m. Port Royal, Jamaica.
Blackbeard and his crew as well as many inhabitants of the New World in 1717 were deeply superstitous. The basis for much of their beliefs came not from religious tracts in print like The Bible and The Koran but from day-to-day religious practices brought by immigrant peoples since most people could not read. What they believed was far from what they could see out of their left or right eye socket. They even held what many in the 21st Century would see as the absurd belief that demons and witches walked among them. The 1692 sinking of Port Royal (a pirate Capital in Jamaica in the Seventeenth Century) many saw as the Wrath of God for the sins committed by many pirates against the Catholic Church and Spain's Empire.
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