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[[File:Davy Jones by George Cruikshank.png|thumb|Davy Jones pictured by [[George Cruikshank]] in 1832, as described by [[Tobias Smollett]] in ''[[The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle]]''<ref>However, presented here character is a fake, created by Pipes, Perry and Pickle to scare Mr. Trunnion; see: {{cite book |title= The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle|last= Smollett|first= Tobias|authorlink= Tobias Smollett|year= 1751|publisher= D. Wilson|location= London|page= 66}}</ref>]]
'''Davy Jones' Locker'''
The origins of the name of Davy Jones, the sailors' [[devil]],<ref name=slang/> are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of Jonah".<ref name="fable">{{cite web | last = Brewer| first =E. Cobham | title = Davy Jones's Locker. | work = Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | date = 1898-01-01| url = http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html| accessdate = 2006-04-30 }}</ref> Other explanations of this [[Sailors' superstitions|nautical superstition]] have been put forth, including an incompetent sailor or a pub owner who kidnapped sailors.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
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