“Stop your whistling,” my grandpa said.
And when I turned to him – cos he’d never said it before – he added, “A whistling woman’s good for God nor man.” Was he saying I wasn’t a kid anymore?
“Come, sit in my workshop, I’ll tell you a tale.”
I willingly went, for my grandpa’s tales were something other. He told me about the three sisters who’d lived in the next village along, how the new vicar had accused them of “Whistling up storms.”
The villagers didn’t like that accusation for they’d made a good living out of their wrecking activities. They chased the vicar out of the village – which brought the wrath of the bishop upon them.
“I charge you to whistle for ever more,” he ordered the sisters. “But now your whistling will help humankind.”
And so the sisters continue to whistle through to this day.
crispina kemp 
Oh, I love this. It reads like a fable!
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My intention 🙂
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Of course it was! 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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wonderful story
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Thank you, Frank
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Wow, great idea. Love it 😀
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Thank you. I admit, I posted the photo. Then looked at it and thought, Oh…
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We like oh 😀
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Thank you. 🙂 It’s partly a true story. My grandpa did tell me off for whistling, for a whistling woman is said to be good for God nor man. Because witches were accused of whistling up storms to help the wreckers wreck the ships
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I didn’t know that. I hope you still whistle though 😀
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Oh yes, his chiding didn’t stop me
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😀
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I’ve never heard that saying about women whistling. I suppose men are allowed and can’t conjure a storm? So typical… But anyway, what a great story, I love the tale-telling grandpa.
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It was a hit against witchcraft. It was thought that a witch could call up a storm. A very ancient belief. In fact I think it’s mentioned in the Bible and in several Ancient Greek stories
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He’s for real.
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