_Red Hair_ (Vol. vii., p. 616.).--The Danes are said to have been (and to
be even now) a red-haired race.
They were long the scourge of England, and to this possibly may be
attributed in some degree the prejudice against people having hair of that
colour.
In Denmark, it is said, red-hair is esteemed a beauty.
That red-haired people are fiery and passionate is undoubtedly true; at
least I vouch for it as far as my experience goes; but that they emit a
disagreeable odour when inattentive to personal cleanliness, is probably a
vulgar prejudice arising from the colour of their hair, resembling that of
the fox--_unde_ the term "foxy."