Bluehaired characters

Blue color of the hair is a riot. The roots of such association go into the punk culture. Perhaps the most famous characters who painted their hair in blue are:

  • Marge Simpson
  • Malvina
  • Bluebeard

Let's try to guess why did they it?

Marge Simpson

 Marge wears a tall hairstyle- tower with blue hair in the  most episodes of the cartoon. In general, there is no reliable answer why Marge Simpson's hair is blue, and the creator of the «Simpsons» Matt Grouning seems to be confused by himself. In the later episodes, where Marge is shown as a child, her hair is already blue (season 19, 11 series). In the episode «Secrets of a Successful Marriage» Homer says that his wife constantly tinting her hair with blue paint. This sends us to a series of «blue and grey» (22 series of the 5th season). Homer remembers that Marge turned grey at age of 17 in this episode,, and it is not connected with the episodes from childhood.

19 сезон, 11 серия "Это было в 90-ых"

Malvina

Looking at Malvina is the character of the fairy- tale «Golden Key» by Alexei Tolstoy involuntarily wondering, but where did this strange hair color appear?

 It's worth starting with the background: «The Golden Key» which was written based on (and rather splicing) the tale of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi «The Adventures of Pinocchio.» Where Pinocchio turned into the more familiar to us Buratino, and the prototype of Malvina was the Fairy with Blue Hair. That's actually the whole explanation, and that's why the blue hair of the Fairy is a completely different story!

Bluebeard

Bluebeard is the character of the same fairy- tale by Charles Perro, he was a rather terrible man with a beard of blue color. Bluebeard is a serial killer of his wives, he was married 7 times, but no one knows where his spouses went missing. The prototype of the blue beard was a real man — Marshal of France Gille de Re. But why did the beard turn blue?

It worth starting again with the background: Charles Perro traveled around Europe for a long time and collected the local legends. One of them said: one day a young count with the bride were passing by the castle of Gille de Re. Gille de Ré noticed them, invited them to his house, and when the «gatherings» came to an end, the owner of the castle offered the young lady of the count to throw her beloved into a stone pit, and she herself made a «marriage proposal». She, strangely enough refused. And as you might have expected, Gille de Rais brutally dealt with her beloved.

Then he forcibly dragged the girl into the church and began swearing that if she did agree to «give her soul and body forever». And the failed Countess took and agreed, and she turned into the Devil of blue color at that very moment. The devil laughed and said to Gille de Re: «Now you are in my power.» He made a sign, and Gille's beard also turned blue. «Now you will not be Gille de Laval,» Satan shouted. «You will be called Bluebeard!» That's the explanation, in the folklore consciousness, the color of the beard became the «seal of evil spirit».

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