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Pirate Girl Costume – Follow In Anne Bonny’s Footsteps To Be A Pirate Girl
The Golden age of piracy was reputed to have lasted from around 1650 through to 1720. It burgeoned because of the lack of authority on the high seas at the time. As soon as the Royal Navy and other European fleets started to make their presence felt, primarily in the Atlantic ocean but also the Mediterranean and Indian oceans, many pirates soon either sort a new gig or felt the bite of the hempen halter (and more besides).
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This period has gone through all manner of revisions thanks to books like Treasure Island, movies like the Pirates Of The Caribbean and even kids shows like Captain Pugwash. The popular modern revision of Pirates from those times were incorrigible scoundrels partaking in daring do adventures that usually ended up with tall tales in the Inn or Pub. The sanitized version in fact.
In reality, most pirates were outlaws, thugs and in many people’s eyes criminals that warranted the death sentence. And some of the legendary pirate captains were bloodthirsty, violent psychopaths.
Hey, but why let the truth ruin a good story and anyway, you’re looking for a pirate wench costume so what does all this reality have to do with dressing up like a pirate ? Well I did some research when looking at pirate costumes and I was certainly surprised to find that there were female pirates. Not many, but some were extremely successful. And others had stories of their own well worth telling. Maybe you can use their tales to inspire you in your next fancy dress party or Halloween event.
And one of the most famous female pirates was Anne Bonny. Her tale is recounted in the famous book “A General History of the Pyrates”.
It relates that Anne was born in County Cork in Ireland. It recounts how her family effectively emigrated to the new world and South Carolina, because of some indiscretions by her father. Her father thrived in the new world and made a fortune in tobacco.
Thus Anne was raised in a fairly privileged existence. But as she got older, she got in with a bad crowd. This came to a head with her marraige to a low level pirate who went by the name Bonny. And although the details are extremely sketchy, they managed to burn her father’s plantation home down. Whoops.
They left South Carolina under a rather heavy cloud and ended up in the Caribbean. They found a new home on the Bahamas, that was the center of the pirate world at the time. This let Anne mingle and mix with pirates at the abundant pirate drinking holes in the main port. It was also during these days that husband and wife drifted away from each other. She fell in with a man known as John “Calico Jack” Rackham (great name!) who was a known pirate and had a sloop.
The new couple left on the sloop and Anne Bonny became a full blown pirate (probably not a wench though as she seemed to be pretty strong willed).
Anne assumed the identity of a man in front of the crew. She dressed in men’s clothing and did the same sort of work as the other men. Only Rackham who she was involved with, and another female pirate, knew her true identity.
Rackham’s salty sea dogs engaged in many acts of piracy, looting gold and other precious treasures from Spanish galleons returning to Spain from the colonies. It is believed that Anne distinguished herself well during their missions. However the ship was trapped by the Royal Navy, who fought and captured Rackham and his crew.
Rackham and many of the other pirates were hanged but Anne Bonny pleaded her belly. She claimed she was pregnant and that forbade the law from enforcing her own hanging sentence. After that nothing else is known of her. Various claims say that she died in prison whilst other claim she escaped and went back to live in South Carolina. Whatever the truth, her tale may inspire you at your next pirate wench costume party.
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