if a hottentot desires the wind to drop he takes one of his fattest skins and hangs it on the end of a pole in the belief that by blowing the skin down the wind will lose all its force and must itself fall fuegian wizards throw shells against the wind to make it drop the natives of the island of bilbili off new guinea are reputed to make wind by blowing with their mouths another way of making wind which is practised in new guinea is to strike a wind-stone lightly with a stick to strike it hard would bring on a hurricane so in scotland witches used to raise the wind by dipping a rag in water and beating it thrice on a stone saying i knok this rag upone this stane to raise the wind in the divellis name it sail not lye tilli please againe

(J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough)