About Lusitanians, Callaicans, Asturians, Cantabrians, Vasconians and other iberian mountaineer tribes (STRABO
GEOGRAPHY p61 Book III Chapter 3)
I'm hairy as a lusitanian7 All the mountaineers lead a simple life, are water-drinkers, sleep on the ground, and let their hair stream down in hick masses after the manner of women, though before going into battle they bind their hair about the forehead. (...)
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http://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/v...opena_6_7.htmlPolybius' description provides a good example of the tremendous visual impact and fear that the Celts instilled in Roman armies before they engaged in the fight: naked, furiously shaking their long hair in order to intimidate the enemy, shrieking brutally, bragging and defiant, they showed an outrageous contempt for their own life (Brunaux 1996a: 141-151; Marco Simón 1990: 132 ff., 1993; Pelegrín n.d.b; Rankin 1987: 70-71, 74, 80, 112, 115). The same is true of Celtiberians to a great extent.
Celts and celtiberians were the fathers of headbanging XD
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