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The modern barber pole originated in the days when bloodletting (the opening of a vein to remove blood or bleedingi was one of the principal duties of the barber. This was a popular method of curing all ills.
The clergy who volunteered barbers as their assistants first performed this. Barbers continued to act as assistants to the physicianclergy until the 12th century.
The two spiral ribbons painted around the pole represented two long bandages, one twisted around the arm before bleeding, and the other one used to bind it afterwards.
Originally the pole with a bandage wound around it (so that both might be together when it was needed) was hung at the door as a sign when they were not in use. Later, instead of hanging the original pole, another was painted just like it and it was given a permanent place on the outside of the shop. This was the beginning of the modern barber pole.
The word “barber” comes from the Latin work “barba” meaning beard. The earliest record of barbers were the foremost men of their tribe, they were the medicine men and the priest. The primitive men were very superstitious and believed good and bad spirits entered the body through the hair of the head. Bad spirits could only be driven out of the individual by cutting the hair.
Various fashions of hair cutting was practiced by different tribes. This made the barber the most important man of the community, and
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