Red Horn (man)

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The legend of Red Horn (also known as 'He Who Wears Human Heads as Earrings'^[1]) is found in the oral traditions of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people and was recorded by anthropologist Paul Radin around 1900. The saga of Red Horn depicts his adventure with Turtle and Storms-As-He-Walks (Thunderbird) who fight a race of red haired giants that have been killing Red Horn's people. Red Horn eventually took one of the giant women as a wife.

There is some speculation that this race of giants were actually medieval Norse invaders to North America, presumably the same as were responsible for the (disputed) Kensington Runestone.

The theme of red haired giants clashing with a culture is also common among the vampire lore of Asia and the apocryphal Book of Enoch.^{[citation needed]}

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• Red Horn
• Ho-chunk Culture