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The Supernatural and Fantasy in Narrative Poetry: Exploring the realms of the unknown
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In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what supernatural event occurs that sets the mariner on his journey?
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He kills an albatross.
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The mariner's fateful journey begins when he shoots an albatross, a sacred bird, which brings bad luck and災難 upon the ship and its crew.