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From: "Mary Lindemann" <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] customs concerning women
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:37:54 -0800
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The prohibition wasn't exclusively Donauschwaben. My sainted Irish Mother
frequently chastised me with "a whistling girl and a crowing hen always come
to some bad end".

As she explained it to me -- if a girl/woman did things that were "man
things" she wouldn't be acceptable to society (male or female) just as the
hen that crowed might be mistaken for a rooster and culled from the flock.

Mary Lindemann
Olympia, Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mercydorf" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] customs concerning women


> Why was it frowned on for women to whistle? Jody
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Anne Dreer
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:57 PM
> Subject: [DVHH-L] customs concerning women
>
>
> Nick, you are right. Donauschwaben women did not smoke. They supposedly
> also didn't drink, certainly not in public places. However there were
> always stories going around about some old granny dunking her bread in
> wine before eating it. Apparently it becomes quite potent that way.
>
> There was also an old saying concerning girls nad women whistling:
>
> Madle was peife un Hingle was kraehe muss mr baldmoeglichscht dr Krage
> rumdrehe.
>
> This means: Girls who whistle and hens that crow need their necks twisted
> (to choke) as soon as possible.
>
> Anna D.
>
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