Jones, Davy, in sailors’ folklore, is a wicked spirit who rules over the souls in the ocean deep. He is known chiefly through the term for the bottom of the sea, Davy Jones’s locker. This is the final resting place of lost articles, sunken ships, and sailors who have drowned or been buried at sea. Thus, Davy Jones’s locker has come to mean death. Scholars are not certain how the name Davy Jones originated. Jones may refer to Jonah, the Hebrew prophet who, according to the Bible, lived three days in the belly of a “great fish.”
