Hysterical hair cutting?

[Rhiannon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-40749640

Incredible story.

[Shaker]

I'm so much of a skeptic that I'm even skeptical of claims of mass hysteria.

Hair, like internal organs (albeit much lower down the scale, obvs.) is a commodity - it's bought and sold for a good price for a variety of reasons, the main one being the creation of realistic* wigs that sell for top dollar. This seems more plausible to me than "they all independently imagined it".

* comparatively speaking.

[floo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-40749640

Incredible story.

Weird!

[Nearly Sane]

My question would be 'Were a woman, in the culture this has happened in,  to be known to have sold her hair be shameful in some way?'

[Rhiannon]

I'm so much of a skeptic that I'm even skeptical of claims of mass hysteria.

Hair, like internal organs (albeit much lower down the scale, obvs.) is a commodity - it's bought and sold for a good price for a variety of reasons, the main one being the creation of realistic* wigs that sell for top dollar. This seems more plausible to me than "they all independently imagined it".

* comparatively speaking.

Not wigs. Extensions.

I think there has to be a kernel of truth in there somewhere. I immediately thought if hair being sold, or stolen to order, but then the accounts say that the cut hair was found thrown on the floor.