Glorious Red Hair Has Long Been Associated With Witches...

... And, ~ yikes, not necessarily in a good way!!!... Of course, in Olden Times, ~ those horridly, horridly ignorant times, the beauty of redheads was their downfall among the incredibly cruel and brutal inquistors of the Church. But, one regular citizen who positively LOVED red hair was Cyrano de Bergerac.

>>> He wrote: "A brave head covered with red hair is nothing else but the sun in the midst of his rays, yet many speak ill of it, because few have the honor to be so. Do we not see that all things in nature are more or less red? Among the elements, he that contains the most essence and the least substance is the fire, because of his color. Gold hath received of his dye, the honor to reign over metals and of all planets the sun is most considered only because he is most red. The best-balanced constitution is that which is between phlegmatic and melancholy. The flaxen and black are beside it - that is to say the fickle and obstinate, between both is the medium, where wisdom in favor of red-haired men hath lodged virtue, so their flesh is much more delicate, their blood more pure, their spirits more clarified, and consequently their intellects more accomplished, because of the mixture of the four qualities."