Are you REALLY Celtic?

[Woodsheal]

Doesn't current scholarship maintain that the "Celts" were not a homogeneous ethnic group, but rather a variety of peoples spread across Europe and the British Isles who shared a language grouping and related culture?

Anyhow, my big toe is shorter than my second....

[cacunn]

Please please stop checking - put the shoes back on - the fog the fog is growing green the cattle are dying. The toe may be the same size, you may be able to open bottles with your feet but the smell the smell

[slohairt]

My big toe is slightly shorter then the second one. I have prehensile monkey toes as well I'm afraid. My second toe is the same size as my little finger!

[ChromeScholar]

My toes are the same length, my family is rife with redheads, and I know, through genealogy research, that both sides of my family are almost 100% "celtic", Scottish from my mothers side, Irish from my father's side, with a smattering of French and native American on my father's side.

[Ozman1944]

I do not have Celtic toes; But of course knowing how many different groups invaded the West Coast of Britain, especially Cornwall, Lord know WHAT genes I have intermingled!
However, to remedy the situation I shall now get out my chainsaw and get those toes even!

[BoldHighlander]

I heard about this recently and it's one of those things that tends to be very, very true.
(For reference, my big toe is the same length as the other.)

I would think DNA testing would be a far more accurate measurement??

At any rate I had to unlace my lineman boots & then lace them back up!!

The second toe on my right foot curls slightly, so I have to actually force it straight to compare. It's very nearly the same length as my big toe, barely a fraction difference. My left big toe is slightly longer, but not by much.
Though I have (had) dark hair, like others I had reddish tints to it, & my people back in Missouri had a whole bunch of red heads.

Another good one is that native Scots/Picts/Britons have wider feet than those of Anglo-Saxon or Germanic heritage.
It's a technique archaeologists studying skeletons often use to determine if remains in the U.K are native peoples.

People in my family (including myself) have rather large & wide feet. Some have had to have shoes special made for them.

[BoldHighlander]

From http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...2002/celts.htm

Paragraph 7:

" Because the so-called Celtic toe can disappear after many
generations of intermarriage, it is not a necessary condition to having a Celtic
ancestor, but it is a sufficient one: if a person has the Celtic toe, he or she
is almost certain to be of Celtic descent."

So I'm wondering. If an individual doesn't have this condition & you can positively trace your line to Scotland / Ireland then does this mean it has been "bred out" of your line?
Or does it mean that perhaps your line is more Norse / Norman / or Pict?

[ccga3359]

I was not a Celt until that darn lawn mower incident...

Equal length here, tinge of red in the summer (being replaced by a tinge of grey). Always thought my ancestry was Norman but I am 1/4 Gypsy. Alas narrow feet like my physique (aerodynamically & hydro-dynamically perfect I tell you).

[Ozman1944]

Nix on the chainsaw; I do have very wide feet; that will have to do.

[ccga3359]

Nix on the chainsaw; I do have very wide feet; that will have to do.

If it helps with you being from Oz, I can guess with some certainty that you are descended from criminals, possibly Celtic criminals!