vaspider:bitterbitchclubpresident:wearethecrystalqueers:takingbackourculture:just stumbled a
vaspider: bitterbitchclubpresident: wearethecrystalqueers: takingbackourculture: just stumbled across this… That’s. Not what faerie/elf locks are…Uggggg Someone call CPS!!! Celts did not wear dreadlocks omg *groan* The first time this is ever spoken of, anywhere, is in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Like, ever. It doesn’t appear again until Grimm and Jayne Eyre. It just means messy hair. And in full context, fairies only play with ‘foul sluttish hair’, which is to say, they put mats in hair which is, in the language of the time, not being taken care of. Because at the time, ‘sluttish’ just meant ‘slovenly.’ So you don’t get ‘elflocks’ unless you aren’t taking care of your hair. And then I guess it’s bad luck to cut out the elflock once they’ve already been like ‘lol you slovenly creature.’ But sure, if you wanna like take Mercutio’s single line about it being bad luck in the middle of his rambling speech about Queen Mab which is basically just a bunch of sex jokes and him being jealous over Romeo’s obsession with Juliet as actual representation of our supposed shared culture, uh, you’re wrong. Celts elaborately plaited their hair. Braided. They revered intricate designs as being godly. They’d have been horrified by that mess. People need to stop just doing dumb shit like this and yelling ‘the Celts did it.’ Because they did not. As far as anyone can tell, Shakespeare made it the fuck up, the same way he made up a bunch of other shit. Get over it. -- source link