Hair Superstitions and Spells

Between the most important features of our physical appearance, hair is one of the first places to which your gaze when you meet someone for the first time. If the tone or the color of the hair  instinctively seem to provide us a subjective first impression, its density and texture suggests, usually youth, health and attractiveness, while hair loss is associated with old age and disease. Therefore, it is not surprising that the capillary adornment  gave birth in ancient times, to various legends and superstitions ...

- They say that if you want to prevent headaches during the year, you should to have a haircut on Good Friday (Easter Friday).
- Reddish women, like Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I, are often irritable or nervous. Dark brown or black hair denotes strength, while light brown hair proves, often,  shyness.
- If a man has a scanty hair around the forehead , he will get a long life. If a woman's hair is characterized by a swirl  above the forehead, she will survive her husband. If, suddenly, a woman's hair creases above the forehead, her husband does not have much longer to live.