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The origin of "Mother Carey" is obscure. Obviously if there are "Mother Carey's Chickens" there must first have been a "Mother Carey" or is it the other way around?

I have run across "Mater Cara" and that name goes back a long long way and it could be that early sailors considered her a patron saint of the sea. But somewhere in the process she acquired an association with the less than savory Davey Jones, and she began to be perceived as malevolent.

C. Fox Smith also composed a poem titled "Mother Carey": Click here!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble