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Friday, 10 January 2020

Whistling

Chelmsford Chronicle, Friday 31st December 1852
Cornish Miners' Superstition.
Amongst the miners in Cornwall a superstition greatly prevails, namely that whistling below ground brings "evil spirits" among them, and for that reason you never hear a miner whistling under ground - Notes and Queries.