Such as how one would gain the infamous peg leg “The carpenter was the most suitable man to tackle the job. The carpenter produced the largest saw from his tool chest and went to work”2. After the leg had been cut off one would need to seal the leg “To cauterize the wound, the carpenter heated his broad axe, but proved less skilled with the tool and burned more of the flesh than necessary”3. This seems terrifying yet makes you interested on how advanced pirates really were.
Buried treasure is another staple that has been distorted through time. Some would have you believe in a giant X in the middle of an island, we discover that this is false. Cordingly tells that “Although buried treasure has been a favorite theme in the pirate stories of fiction, there are very few documented examples of real pirates burying their loot”4. While it is true that there isn’t some island with a bunch of gold buried waiting to be dug up. It is and will always be associated with the pirate