In the J. M. Barrie play and novel Peter Pan, Captain Hook's hand was cut off by the title character and fed to a crocodile, which had also swallowed a clock, alerting Hook to its presence. In this episode, Hook refers to Rumpelstiltskin as a crocodile because of his appearance (he also sports an alligator skin vest).
The crocodile's symbolic function as time, fate, and the inevitable is Hook's own invention, a trace of Hook's love for a vanished order. In the end, the crocodile's only symbolic connection to fate is his passive compliance in fulfilling his savage goal of getting Hook.
His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name.
A collection of proverbs attributed to Plutarch suggests that the phrase "crocodile tears" was well known in antiquity: comparing the crocodile's behaviour to people who desire or cause the death of someone, but then publicly lament for them.
Captain Hooks's nemesis wasn't Peter Pan…..it was a crocodile that swallowed his hand after Peter Pan chopped it off in an epic sword fight and followed him around wanting to eat the rest until eventually she (yes, in the book, the crocodile was a female) did; thus, ending Hooks career as it was.
Hook: The End of Captain Hook (Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman Scene)
Why does Hook call Rumple crocodile?
In the J. M. Barrie play and novel Peter Pan, Captain Hook's hand was cut off by the title character and fed to a crocodile, which had also swallowed a clock, alerting Hook to its presence. In this episode, Hook refers to Rumpelstiltskin as a crocodile because of his appearance (he also sports an alligator skin vest).
We all know the story of Peter Pan: boy who never grows up visits children and brings them to Neverland in hopes that they, too, remain childlike, all while protecting them from the evil pirate Captain Hook who is bent on getting revenge on Peter Pan for cutting off his hand.
Crocodile symbol stand for power and strength in some cultures because it is a powerful and formidable predator that is feared by many other animals. In some other cultures crocodiles stand for adaptability and survival because they have survived for millions of years by adapting to changing environments.
The crocodile paradox, also known as crocodile sophism, is a paradox in logic in the same family of paradoxes as the liar paradox. The premise states that a crocodile, who has stolen a child, promises the parent that their child will be returned if and only if they correctly predict what the crocodile will do next.
“….. crocodile” is simply a variation of “ see you later”, or a response to same, offered as a first use of this rhyming form ie rhyming the final two words in each phrase, so…..
He believed his fate would be to be devoured by the Crocodile, and not even its death could relieve him of that conviction. And so when its dead jaws closed around him, he simply accepted his fate - letting go of his anger and insecurity, embracing his ending.
The crocodile approaches with his eyes popping with up to the tune again, looking delighted to see a golden opportunity to eat the Captain. He jumps up and bites off Hook's coat, devouring it.
In J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, Peter Pan fought Captain Hook and cut off his hand because the Lost Boys had dared him to: "Fight Hook, you say," He pondered, and touched his chin, "A dare, you say."
James Barrie's Captain Hook may have been partly based on the famous Captain Cook, who was killed by Hawaiian natives in 1799, and the crocodiles may have been inspired by a gift by privateer, Captain Newport, to King James I of England.
Did you know that Hook is potentially based on a real pirate from history? Rumor has it that Peter Pan's original author, J.M. Barrie, based Captain Hook on the likeness of real-life privateer Christopher Newport who led attacks on Spanish ships and settlements for the English.
Barrie's Peter Pan is human-born, not a fairy, but he's lived in Never Land so long that he's as much a fairy as he is a boy: magical, capricious, and amoral, like the fairies of the old Scots tradition.
Crocodile meat can become contaminated with bacteria during processing. The bacterial infection in people, he adds, can cause illness including severe food poisoning, typhoid, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
In rare cases, individual crocodilians have been known to bond so strongly with people that they become playmates for years. For example, a man who rescued a crocodile that had been shot in the head became close friends with the animal.
It is illegal to hunt crocodiles in the U.S.; however, some hunting still occurs illegally. Hunting also occurs in other countries in the crocodile's range, as most countries have hard times enforcing conservation laws, or have no conservation laws to protect the crocodile and its habitat.
In summary, Egypt is a symbol of the world, the house of bondage. The symbol of Pharaoh's Egypt is the crocodile. The crocodile / serpent / dragon / Leviathan is a symbol of world power in rebellion against God.
Sobek (also called Sebek or Sobki, Coptic: Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, romanized: Souk) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile and is represented either in its form or as a human with a crocodile head.
The iconic pirate villain of J.M. Barrie's original Peter and Wendy, named Captain James Hook, is bent on killing Peter Pan because Peter cut off his hand and fed it to the crocodile. Barrie also says Hook worked for Blackbeard and was the only man Long John Silver was afraid of.
The theory suggests that Peter Pan's tendency to murder his friends once they begin to age serves as the true basis for the bad blood between Hook and himself and that the pirate's crew is made up of other former Lost Boys who help Hook resist Pan's magic.
