Shooting an Albatross. There is a very widespread idea among sailors that the shooting of an Albatross will bring great misfortune to the slayer; his shipmates; and their vessel. The superstition seems to have existed from the time of the early navigators of the Southern Ocean; who believed that the souls of drowned mariners entered the bodies of these birds. In Coleridges "Ryme of the Ancient Mariner;" from which our picture is an illustration; we see how the dire condition to which the ship and crew are reduced is brought about by the shooting of an Albatross. Illustration for one of a set of 25 cigarette cards on the subject of Popular Superstitions issued by Godfrey Phillips in 1930.