Because blonde is associated with fair maidens. Light equals good. Dark (black) equals evil. Red haired children are devil's child. (That's what they thought anyway)
The thing is there are no witches, when Shakespeare wrote about them in Macbeth most people did not believe in them.
It's like this throughout a lot of mythology and genres. Black and red are often "the bad guys". Why are sith lightsabers red, Lucas could have made red good and blue evil.
I suspect it originates with blood and darkness. We would have feared the dark and seen blood as a warning.
Darker hair just seems more evil rather than blonde hair and the only time I can see blonde as evil is if you find the head cheerleader of a highschool and she's a mean blonde, that's as far as it goes with this, blonde is just not a very evil look... As for the orange hair it is because of the saying that goes that ginger don't have a heart and soul so that's why it's incorporated into them...
Not really. Maybe I don't think so because I'm a blackhead myself. But it would be cool with that look deceive things. Anyway, the snow queens in both Narnia and a Danish fairy tale were evil. You could still tell they were evil. They looked like this: i.pinimg.com/.../...7eab96c7183447a6c59efe3914.jpg
In old Scandinavia cold was often associated with evil too. More than darkness in some places. Having a cold heart was the opposite of having a warm heart. Snow was cold and could kill, therefor it was evil. Mostly white people lived in Scandinavia.
Yes, they're. Facial features, hair and eye color also counts. This woman for instance has light-skin, blue eyes and medium blonde hair - like some Europeans. She's born that way. But many would say she still looks more African than North-European because of her facial features. i.huffpost.com/.../s-DESTINYBIRDSONG-large640.jpg
It's more common for Asians and Africans to have black hair than Scandinavians too. There aren't many Asians and Africans with natural blonde or orange hair. So yes, hair and eye color is as racial as the skin tone. So is facial features.
I never really noticed... I practice witchcraft myself and I have auburn hair... But I think red hair is more unique and stands out, while black gives that mystery... And that what they expect from witches in media
Witchcraft was nothing but outing the odd, rebellious one out. People get scarred of things they don't know about. In western regions black & red are a rarity in hair colours. Women with those hair must have been rare in ancient times. So people got scared and associated them with witchcraft. The mythologies couldn't help but relate red with fire and black with darkness. And people kept following the stereotypes for a long time.
Dark hair because dark is mysterious and mysterious can be evil Red hair because gingers have no soul and are totally evil so speaketh the Cartman It doesn't only apply to witches in movies and tv shows Not so often the blondes are the antagonists particularly not female blondes
I've heard gingers can see in your soul and are witches and demons. Also found out Lilith was a redhead so I get the stories I've heard over the years. And honestly ginger witches usually are cuter so maybe that's why as well or to further portray that idea gingers are evil and bizzare
The concept of witches as we know them originates from Central/Northern European paganism, I think. And in those areas people with black and red hair are more rare than other colours. So I guess the portrayal is supposed to make them appear more mysterious, and exotic.
Women with black haor more than gongers tho.. I've rarely seen a scary movie with a ginger as the demon or ghost lol.. That demond wouldn't be so scary anymore..
There was a time when people dressed like that and with such hair color were burned alive because people really taught they were witches or something alike.
So like much movies/series, they are based on old myths ;)
I can only really say what I know from a lot of Romanian folklore, wherein having orange hair was a sign that you had an attunement to evil forces like witchcraft or vampirism.
there were some blonde witches in supernatural that's evil. there's 2 blonde witch sisters on season 13 episode 12. i remember there were more in previous seasons but too long ago so i don't remember which season and episode for those lols.
I took the time and looked for the charmed seasons dvds I own, and looked at google... I was right, even the new made charmed serie... one red, one brown and one brown close to red hair...
It's from the TV-series Salem. Considering watching it? I don't recommend that show. It's both cringeworthy, historical inaccurate and portrays historical people in a distasteful way.
Both facial features, hair, eye and skin color are typically characteristics. It's more common for white people to be blonde for example, but for Asians, Africans, Spaniards, Hispanic/Latino and Mediterranean to have black hair.
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