Said the ancient mariner, "With my crossbow I shot" this bird, bringing a curse upon his ship
said they, the bird to slay, [DOC] [TLE] Title: The rime of the christo-marine When Samuel Coleridge set pen ... [PAR] In his Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christian mythology and symbolism abound ... 
[ln 244] As the ghost ship approaches, "I bit my arm, I sucked the blood," in ... 
Coleridge then makes use of "holy" numbers, such as three and seven, on 
several occasions ... As punishment for killing the bird, and bringing about their 
tragic fate,... [DOC] [TLE] Essay by Prof Ivan Callus - Anthony Catania [PAR] rush by which the Pied Piper leads legions of rats to their death, so that when in 
other ... curse that had fallen upon the Mariner after he had killed the fateful 
albatross is lifted.