Davy Jones' Locker

From Srafopedia

In Lyra’s wild tale about her adventures with Will and Roger that she tells to entertain the family with whom she, Will, and the Gallivespians stay in the suburbs of the world of the dead, Lyra says that Roger fell from the crow’s nest of the boat they were sailing to Cathay and into Davy Jones’s locker. In other words, he drowned.

The phrase "Davy Jones's Locker" also is found in our world. There is no definitive answer about the source of this phrase, although it has appeared in print to mean drowning at sea since at least the mid 18th century. Some claim Davy Jones was a cruel pirate who made his enemies walk the plank, which, of course, always ended in death. Another story claims that there was once a pub owner by the name who drugged his customers and sold them into slavery. Still another claims Jones to derive from Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale, and Davy from the word duppy meaning spirit or devil, making Davy Jones an evil spirit in the sea. In contrast, Davy also has been deemed a derivative of St. David, patron saint of Wales frequently petitioned by sailors.

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