Have just watched a video of a Scandinavian woman summoning her cows with a high-pitched tune. It’s called Kulning cow singing.
My father used to whistle a certain tune — four notes, his own invention — whenever he fed the crocodiles.
One day, he decided to jump into the pond to clean it out, instead of doing it in safety from the other side of the low brick wall surrounding the crocodile enclosure, with all the crocodiles having been chased up onto the dry land area of the enclosure.
My father was enjoying cleaning out the pond so much that he forgot himself and started whistling that same tune. The crocodiles, thinking it was feeding time, came down from the dry land area and went for his ankle. His yelling and shouting could be heard from across the road, “You stupid animals! Don’t you know who your master is?!?”
Four stitches.
(Scandinavia; Singapore 1960s)
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