It’s like The Telephone Game, except with pirates.

>Indeed, the Spaniards told awful tales about the pirates to their children and even came to believe the stories themselves. It was said the privateers were strange creatures “formed like monkeys” or “mad dogs” who could flit soundlessly through a jungle and then appear in a village like sorcerers, where they’d help themselves to a meal of townspeople. “This caused them to conceive a keen horrore and aversion for us,” recalled the gallant French pirate Raveneau de Lussan. He gave as an example one incident when he was escorting a Spanish woman who kept glancing nervously at him as they walked. Finally she could stand it no longer. >”Sir,” she cried, “for the love of God, do not eat me!” _______________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “An Amateur English Theatrical.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 150-51. Print. ______________________ **Further Reading:** [Raveneau de Lussan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raveneau_de_Lussan)