White horse...red headed woman

This story has absolutely no point…no ending for you to take away with you and make you think for the next days and weeks ahead….no moral whatsoever..  Just a fun story.

When I was a little girl, we would go to Virginia to visit my grand parents.  They lived about a hundred miles from us. Invariably while we were driving up the road, and we came upon a white horse, my Daddy would say “see a white horse..see a red headed woman.”  Then he would glance in the back seat at my little red headed sister and say “well, there she is!”  Of course my sister loved that and none of us ever got tired of his little joke.  

We passed a white horse the other day and I told Tommy and John boy that story.  They asked if it was an old tale and did I know where it came from, so I looked it up.  It is actually an old superstition and the New York Times wrote about it in the 19th and early 20th century.  The only difference is that Daddy had it backwards.  If you see a red headed woman, then you will see a white horse. 

The funny part of the story is that the day after I told them that story, we were watching Charles Dickens David Copperfield.  It’s a mini series we got from the library.  At one point David is sent to live with a man who has a servant with red hair.  The servant is a man.  David arrives in a horse drawn carriage and the horse is white.  After David goes into the house, the red haired servant goes out to pet the horse.  

As I said…no big revelations here, just an interesting story.  Sometimes quirky things like that happen and it makes me wonder why…Why did I tell that story to the guys?  Why did we see the red haired man and the white horse the very next day in a movie?.  Who knows?  

Read about this myth by clicking this link:

http://www.themythsandhistoryofredhair.co.uk/newyorktimes.html

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