Alexander the Great shaved his locks in mourning for his friend, Hephaestion, and it was supposed that his death was hastened by the sun's heat on his bare head after his hat blew off at Babylon.

Both the Dakota Indians and the Caribs maintain the custom of sacrificing hair to the dead.

In Peru the custom was varied by pulling out eyelashes and eyebrows and presenting them to the sun, the hills, etc.

It is said this custom is still in continuance.

When Clovis was visited by the Bishop of Toulouse he gave him a hair from his beard and was imitated by his followers.