#of Bonny and Read wearing men's clothes. baggy trousers big coats fastened up etc etc

[regicidal-defenestration]

[ID: A youtube screenshot, showing a video from Facts Verse titled Bizarre Pirate Traditions You Didn't Know About. The thumbnail has two images, one is a sketch of a pirate, glaring at the viewer, and the other is of a pirate baring her breast at the man she attacks. End ID]

This popped up on my youtube recommended and it annoyed me so much I couldn't bring myself to watch it. What are your sources. If it's a commonly repeated story with no real foundation I'm judging you, if you've taken Johnson's General History of Pyrates as fully truthful and accurate I'm judging you even more and if it's that one woodcut of Anne Bonny from the one Dutch version of the General History you might as well delete your channel now

#maybe the video is accurate im just here to bitch about the thumbnail anyway. #im assuming the first image is of Blackbeard because a) black beard. and b) it looks Very similar to that one famous woodcut of him. dont #remember where its from and i cant find it online. the headshot with the burning beard one. anyway #the burning beard is a myth far as i can tell. GHoP talks about him sticking lighted slow matches under his hat though so fair enough if #the video talks about that BUT you cant bring up GHoP as solid fact because. it isnt! some can be corroborated with like court records and #the like; but some parts can't! if your only source is that book then you cant really say its Definite #and as for the second image. MAN. #im assuming its Anne Bonny. tbf it's either her or Mary Read because we don't have records of any other female pirates operating in this #time period #I'm assuming Bonny though because theres a dutch version of GHoP with a woodcut of her; shirt open #and yes ive already brought up how its not necessarily accurate BUT the original version didn't have this image in! it had a DIFFERENT one #of Bonny and Read wearing men's clothes. baggy trousers big coats fastened up etc etc #and whats more we have further evidence supporting the 'they just dressed like sailors and other pirates'; in the transcipt of the Tryals #of John Rackham (and others) someone attacked by them (Dorothy Thomas) describes how they "wore Mens Jackets and long Trouzers and #Handkercheifs tied about their Heads [... and] that the Reason of her knowing and believing them to be Women then was by the largeness of #their Breasts.' #yes i have my pdf of the trial transcript open what of it #anyway i dont really have a point beyond 'please have sources for your claims for the love of god' #hi if youve read this far i hope youre having a good day <3