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Original Title: TIL Mother Carey is a figure in 18th- and 19th-century English sailor folklore, seen as a harbinger of storms and linked to Davy Jones. The name comes from Latin Mater cara, meaning “Precious Mother.” Sailors called storm petrels “Mother Carey’s chickens,” believing them to be souls of dead seamen.