| Show long beards are traced to days of israelites fraeli tea tradition says that adam wore a bushy beard and the israelites in egypt distinguished themselves from their masters by cultivating long ones thus all artistic representatives of biblical patriarchs depict them long bearded aarons beard Is proverbial and to swear by the beard constituted the most solemn oath mahomet followed the ancient tradition and never allowed a razor on his face madans still swear by the beard of the prophet the romans called the unshaven bearded inhabitants of northern europe who nho eventually brought about the empires fall barbar barbarians lans from the latin barba a beard from which we get our barber and from which the famous barbarossa or red beard was named says tit bits magazine queen mary I 1 sent four agents to moscow all bearded and one of them george killingworth had bad a beard five feet long which it Is said made even ivan the terrible laug laugh gh I 1 1 hans burgomaster of braunau brannau Bra who died in 1567 Is shown in his monument in the parish church there with a parted beard beautifully waved which reaches below his feet and were it pulled straight would be six feet long iong the actual beard Is preserved in the local museum it is in two ropes and its color Is reddish brown |
