Question

What hellish thing had the ancient mariner done?how did the ship men reacts

Answer 1

The ancient mariner shot the albatross who flew around his ship playing with the ship men or for food.
Earlier his fellow ship men reacted positively as they thought that the bird was responsible for the bad weather but later they blamed the ancient mariner claiming that the death of albatross was curse which left them helpless in the sea .
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