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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 19

Of the many superstitions in connection with whistling, none ie better known than that which flourishes in colliery districts, where whistling in the mines is regarded with disfavour. In the Leicestershire mines, if whistling is heard, the miners will leave the pits rather than flout what they con sider to be a sure portent of disaster. The Arpbs have a laying that after whistling it takes a man 40 davs to cleanse his mouth. The whistling Arab is, in fact, a rarity, Jceland is another country where whistling is taboo. Natives of Cornwall will not tolerate whistling in many places, particularly in caverns and tin mines. The Cornish fisherman will on no account allow a whistling woman aboard his boat. The superstitions concerning a “whistling woman and a crowing hen” is nowhere regarded with greater respect than in Cornwall and Devon,