i dream of someday be able to see the northern lights

Oh, I'm sorry.:S

I see them on a fairly regular basis being located in Northern Canada. One of the strangest phenomenom about them is that if you whistle they seem to begin 'dancing' across the sky. It's beautiful, but sort of eerie, especially in light of a story a native friend of mine told me at a party once.

He said that when he was a young boy, his grandmother told him never to 'taunt' (which he believed meant to whistle at) the lights, because they were the spirits of his dead ancestors, and they would come back and drag him to the afterlife so that he would learn to respect them.

They are hauntingly beautiful, though!