Posts Tagged ‘red-haired witches’
Six Red-haired Witches
One of the more scary assumptions about redheads in the days o’ yore was that red hair marked an individual as evil in some way: one specific fear was that redheaded women were witches. (Of course we are.) So here, in no particular order, we have six red-haired witches from popular media, as well as [...]
On Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 this was posted in red hair while thinking: red-haired females, red-haired witches. No Comments »
Redheads: Gillian Owens
Gillian Owens is a character played by Nicole Kidman in the movie Practical Magic. Gillian is the sister who runs away to start living life as soon as she can; the party girl who basically goes from man to man trying to find one who sticks. When one of the men is trouble for her, [...]
On Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 this was posted in red hair while thinking: red-haired females, red-haired witches, redheads in sci-fi. 2 Comments »
Redheads: Willow Rosenberg
Willow Rosenberg is a character from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Alyson Hannigan (now-Denisof). The character appears in both the television series and the comic books which continued the story. She is Buffy’s best friend and becomes a powerful witch. One of the things I enjoy about Willow’s character is that she [...]
On Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 this was posted in red hair while thinking: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, red-haired females, red-haired witches, redheads in sci-fi. 2 Comments »
Redheads: Witch Hazel
One of my favorite characters in the Looney Tunes cartoons is Witch Hazel. I love fairy tales, and since many of the episodes she is in are evocative of fairy tales (or, hey, Macbeth) I was enamored. Rather fabulously, at one point when Witch Hazel drinks a beautifying potion she had concocted for her “rival” [...]
On Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 this was posted in geekery, red hair while thinking: cartoons, fairy tales, looney tunes, red-haired females, red-haired witches, redheads in cartoons. Comments Off
