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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Saturday Whistling Superstition


Saturday Whistling Superstition

One well known theatrical superstition is this: It is bad luck to whistle in a theater (or back stage). But why?

Early on, those who worked the rigging (ropes) backstage were sailors. They quite literally, “knew the ropes”. To communicate with each other, the sailors used whistles as signals. Obviously, if a dancer or actor whistled, it could confuse the whole operation, and ruin the show. Bad luck indeed!

So there is (was) a logical reason why whistling in a theater or backstage was said to be bad luck.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Superstition #106:
“It is bad luck to whistle in a theater.”

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Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.”
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