The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-22
BEWARE OF THE RED HEAD.
Ancient Traditions Ascribed Mis-.
fortune to PossessOrs Of Sun.
Kissed Locks.
(Boston Globe.)

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(Boston Globc.)
Salute no red-haired mar nearer
than thirty feet Off" run an old
French %proverb, and even so. hold
three stones in the fist wherewith 10
defend myself"
From biblical times to the present
day. can be traced the prejudice
against red hair. Never lodge at red
cept In the fifteenth century ''Boke OF
Curtasye." for these be folkc that
are to drede." According to one ira
dition this distrust of rcd-haircd poo
pie dates from the time of Judas. who,
himself red-haired. caused trcachcrN
TO be ever afterwards connected with
hair of that color.
Shakespeare alludes to this belief.
Says Rosalind. complaining of her
lover. his very hair is of the dis
sembling color" Whercupon Celia
answers her: Something browncr
than Judas" Marston. too, in "Thc
1nsatiate Countess" makes one of his
characters remark: II ever thought
by his red beard he would prove II
Judas"
In Sweden prejudice against rcd
nalr was Very strong; here it's ron-
nection with treachery was twofold,
Tor the traitor. .Ashjorn, who betrayed
Canute, possessed red hair. in Ger
many. also. red hair met with scant
regard. THE short in STATURE says
a German proverb, are naturally
proud. and the red-haired untrust-
worthy Nor is this latter belief by
any means extinct at the present time.
Red hair, however unjuStly. is still
associated with deceit, and, in Ireland
II Scotland. with i'll luck as well. In
the Highlands, he who meets a rcd
haired oma when starting on a
journey will he we'll advised. say the
wiseacres. to return home and start
the journey afresh: and i'm Ireland
~red-haired people arc supposed to on
ercise tho same baleful influence upon
any undertaking.
The writer. staying in western Con-
nemara not long ago for brown trout
!shlnS, complained ono day that sport
mad beer unusually Door. The land
iord smoothed his chin, and pondered
TOR some little time upon the reason
ior this lack of fish. Then. sudden
~: his face li~shtened--thc lakes. after
all. 1t seemed. re not in fault.
sure he said. yell have met Red
Maggie Murphy on the way to the
axe: Twas herself that passed by
the minute after!"
The fairy folks are at one with hr-
man beings in disliking rcd-haired
people. although in other connections
1ney are by no means avcrse to ed.
Piskies. indeed. are sometimes known
IN the west of England by the names
OF "red-caps." owing to their fond
ness FOR caps of the color: while fairy
coWS-those strange, hornlcss animals
which have the power IF crossing the
sea by themselves-are invariably
But the unfortunate human posses
sor of red hair meets with scant cour-
tesy from the fairy folk; he it is who
suffers most acutely from tho unwel-
come attentions of sprisgans and buc-
cas-. He will he decoyed across the.
bogland ut night by lights like those
or cottage windows. only to find that
these lights have in truth no exist
ence: his cattle will be pisky ridden.
his colts chased all night long. Only,
indeed. by wearing his coat turned
inside out. and drawing his cap we'll
over that obnoxious hair. can he hon.
to mitigate such unwclcome atten-
tions.