Being Ginger

RED. Pt.3 Redheads were targeted during witch trials. Cyrano De Bergerac defended them. He wrote: "A brave head covered with red hair is nothing else but the sun in the midst of his rays...their flesh is much more delicate, their blood more pure, their spirits more clarified"

RED. Pt 2. JUDAS is often portrayed as having red hair in medieval art. Red is "The Judas Color". It's likely that red was chosen to make the traitor stand out from the other Apostles in paintings, but it has contributed to centuries' worth of discrimination against redheads.

RED Pt.1. The medievals considered the bodily fluids of redheads to be magical. It was believed that fat from the red-haired could be used to make poison. That their blood could turn copper to gold. "The urine from red-haired boys was used to make paint for stained glass windows"