the mystical power of hair said to many myths.Ancient oriental and ancient gods, evangelists and apostles often depicted with long hair, indicating that their physical stamina and mental toughness.It is believed that the soul resides in the hair, and if they are cut, then the person may be deprived of mental and physical strength.
example, very short hair used bad glory.Ireland believed that people with a haircut communicate with otherworldly forces, because "hedgehog" on the head like always stood on end with horror when dealing with evil spirits.
no less important role in the evaluation of hair plays a mystical and color.
White and cast gold reminded of the divine light and symbolized immortality.With these long curls usually Byzantine icons abroad XII and XIII centuries depicting angels.
Brown pointed to a strong internal energy of a person.
Copper-red were associated with the goddess Venus, is for many believers personification of adultery, so the color supposedly testified about unholy and demonic character.No wonder why the Venetian courtesans artists represented only redheads.
Women with reddish auburn hair accused of involvement in the community of evil spirits.This color was a sign of moral decline and betrayal.With such hair portrayed Judas.
equally grim reputation were endowed with black hair and .They seem to bore the hell of soot and trace mark of evil.The black-haired in the imagination of our ancestors were the devil and the demons of hell, and brunettes suspected hidden witches.
ancient beliefs
In western Serbia, trimming hair children, left a lock on his head - "for good luck."
Germany vowed revenge not cut their hair, to save power, and stay physically invulnerable.
the Frankish King childhood not to cut their hair, and if it happened - not necessarily willingly, was a sign of giving up rights to the throne.
In the Middle Ages believed that the malicious power of witches through the hair goes into space and poisons it.Therefore, the holy executioners of the Inquisition to torture them shaved off all the hair on the body.
voluntarily and even happy to shave only the people who are in a state of emotional turmoil, following the Old Testament injunction in sorrow "to renounce the hair and throw them all evil."
donate their hair to God as a particle itself Indian Brahmins and Buddhist monks.They shave their heads, thus emphasizing their slavish submission to the deity.
still retained a belief that we should not throw the hair after a haircut, so as not to bring troubles and diseases.They burn, wash the toilet, hidden under the threshold of the house or in the hollow of an old tree.
Trying to help the patient, his hair, which could be a disease, were spinning on a tree branch or gave to be devoured by dogs, believing that the illness will go into a plant or animal.
However, the hair of a loved one tried to carry.After his death, they were stored in special beautiful caskets or made them bracelets and charms.
special mystic significance has been endowed with an assembly of hair.As a knot on a rope, and any ring, he magically "locked" man and introduced him to the closed, that is a safe space.
Until now, some areas are not forgotten tradition of belief-that a child up to one year can not cut hair.Our ancestors believed that a girl with long hair brings happiness to the family.It is also believed that if a girl with her hair to run around the field, will be a good harvest.With hair wondered predict the future.
This is also the tradition of head covering of a married woman.She goes into the distant past and is associated with the concepts of magical power of hair.Sweet, matted women's hair - "Koltun" - in the popular imagination perceived as a link with the other world, belonging witches, wizards.Splayed not cleaned under the headdress hair also attracted the forces of evil.When a woman marries and becomes a member of another family, she had to cover her head so as not to bring misfortune to her husband and his relatives.Get out of the house into the street, "bare", "bareheaded" even at the beginning of the XX century.It was considered unacceptable.
The article used materials from the book SVTownsman LMZaitseva "Russian folk wedding dress."
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