WHISTLING ARROWS
-- While screaming bombs were falling on London, C. Martin Wilbur, curator of Chinese archsology and ethnology at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, called attention to his exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows. They were used by Manchu bodyguards to frighten people off the streets when the emperor rode by. The large, blunt whistle head kept them from being dangerous. Probably the earliest geference to whistling arrows credits their use to a Mongolian prince named Maotun (200 B.C.), who used them to train his followers to loyalty. Whenever he shot his screamer at something, attendants were to follow up and shoot to kill. Those who hesitated were executed, Methodically working up from his favourite horse to his favourite concubine, he finally aimed his plaything at his father, and went on to found the powerful Hsiung Nu Dynasty.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 7
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