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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormack and we're back with part three of our series on Whistling. Now, if you haven't heard the first two parts, you might want to go check those out first.

In the previous sections, we talked about the physics of what happens in the mouth. When you whistle, we talked about whistling based languages or variants of languages. And we talked about the fascinating practice of Chinese transcendental whistling as well as some various psychonautical beliefs about the world changing power of whistling.

But today, it might be interesting to turn our eyes to ancient history and say, did people whistle in the ancient world? And if so, how would we know about it?

This is such a great question that I never really thought about because I kind of took it for granted. Like this is a sound that the human body can make.

Therefore, people would have made this sound. And I think for the most part, this is a good way of looking at it things. But then the other side of the equation is, all right, well, let's look at the evidence. What evidence do we have in the literature of the ancient world, that people whistleed?

And then if they did whistle, what are the attitudes concerning whistling? Because one thing that I think we've already been able to stress in this series is that whistling is fascinating as it is. It is not a neutral thing.

We end up having these various cultural and as we'll discuss superstitious weights attached to the practice of whistling.

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