Italian Sayings and Proverbs about Red Hair

Emanuela has also kindly translated some Italian sayings and proverbs into English for me :) They're quite revealing and reinforce the attitudes most other nationalities have about red hair.

The bracketed comments are Emanuela's.

• Red-haired beauties have 1000 devils each hair (this reminds me of a Russian proverb I read recently, saying "There are no saints with red hair").
• When in a redheads’ house, don’t eat and don’t drink unless you know them
• God protect us from women, cough and redheads
• Those with red hair die before you get to know them
• Those with red hair have shaken nerves
• Better to have a death in the family than a redhead at the door (that’s awful!)
• Women with red hair are eager of co*k (and pardon my French!)
• Not even red-coated pigs are good.
• The kindest of redheads threw his/her father into a weel, or
• The kindest of redheads killed his/her mother
• Children with red hair and piebald cats (or dogs) are to be killed at childbirth (that’s terrible, especially for kittens!)
• Stay away from people with red hair
• Lucky those who believe in bona-fide redheads.