The Romans considered the Huns to be the most barbaric of all barbarians, and found their appearance repulsive (this was in part Roman opinion of ‘oriental’ features, but also many Steppe nomads used to bind the heads of their children to distort the shape of the skull as they grew up, and would sometimes slash their own faces to leave deliberate scars). Even the Goths thought that the Huns were descended from ‘witches and evil spirits’ from the East.
The most notorious leader of the Huns was [[Attila]] (406-453), the "Scourge of God", who having put the [[Balkans]] (to the very walls of [[Constantinople]]), [[France]], and northern [[Italy]], to fire and the sword, and then extracted tribute from the Romans to not ravage them any more. [[File:Huns.jpg|thumb|250px]]
==False myths==
British and American propaganda in [[World War I]] often attacked the Germans as barbaric Huns, using the myth that the Huns were the ancestors of the Germans. That is not true. Furthermore, there is no connection between the Huns and the country of [[Hungary]], despite the similarity of names. The Huns are not connected with the [[Mongols]], another Asian group that invaded Europe centuries later.