whistness

Noun

 * 1)  Silence.

Noun

 * 1)  Witchcraft; supernatural dealings.
 * 2) * 1883, Edward William L. Davies, 'A memoir of the Rev. John Russell, and his out-of-door life'' (page 159)
 * [O]thers fancied &mdash; the natives notably &mdash; that there was some "whistness," or witchcraft, in the business; it might be, as they thought, the work of Dick Down, the old huntsman who was eaten by the Hayne hounds, and whose ghost was known to haunt the covers round the park.