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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, first of all, is a really creepy story. It begins with a wedding, and there are three guests about to enter the wedding celebration, when an ancient, skeleton of a man, (presumably dressed in rags), stops one of them, holding him by the shoulder with a bony hand. He than without a word of warning, or explanation, proceeds to tell a story to the wedding guest, a man he has never met before. There was a ship, which set out to sail, and was blown off course, south of the equator, towards the South Pole by a sudden storm. On the voyage home, the ship is encased in a cold fog, and an albatross happens by the ship (not necessarily in that order), and in the fog the ship sails with the albatross, a bird of good fortune. (This is the part where it gets creepy.) Without reason that we know about, the Mariner who narrates the tail shoots the albatros