Proverbs (whistling)

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jan F. Ullrich wrote:
> Shake' nitha'pa kte.
> Your fingers will change into balls.
> When scolding children for pointing at the rainbow.

I seem to recall a comparable warning for either Dakota or Omaha along the
lines of "Don't whistle, you sound like a ghost."  Presumably sounding
like a ghost is bad because one either becomes one or summons one.

And I remember a comment in a story that Catherine Rudin showed me that
indicates that ghosts are afraid of flapping laundry.  This now smacks
(cf. schmecken?) to me of some supporting statement along these lines.

JEK