The Whistling Witches: A Tune for the Otherworldly
While chants, incantations, and ritualistic drumming are well-known witchy conjure tools for summoning entities in witchcraft, there exists a lesser-known practice called "whistling magic." Whistling witches, shrouded in a veil of mystery, whistle tones and melodies to beckon spirits and beings from other realms. It's probably easiest to learn a whistling language from one's blood-witch family. Yet if your heritage was stomped out by the Inquisition (like many important cultures have been) you can regain some of the old wisdom from studying with non-witchy communities who are willing to share their whistling languages with you.
The Power of Breath and Tone
Regional Variations
The practice of whistling magic is found across various cultures, each with its own unique characteristics. In the folklore of Spain's Canary Islands, the "Silbo Gomero" is a complex whistling language used for communicating across ravines. Similarly, whistling languages can also be learned from Myanmar (located between India and China), Mexico, Turkey, the Canary Islands, the French Pyrenees, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Greece, and New Guinea. Like all topics magickal, you may listen to any whistling language for FREE on YouTube and (if the language is in your ancestral DNA) you will instantly feel the magic in it. Witches who master the skill can use their specific whistles to call upon benevolent spirits for protection or guidance.
Legends that caution non-witches against nighttime whistling
- Mexican and Texano legends teach that night whistling attracts the Lechuza (shape-shifting witches who look like ordinary women by day).
- In Hawaii, it's believed that night whistling attracts the Hukai'po (aka "night marchers")
- In Japan, night whistling draws snakes and Tengu (mythical demons)
- In Australia, it's said that night whistling draws forest-dwelling dwarves.
- In Turkey, when you whistle at night, you might be summoning the Jinn!
Blessed be!
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