So.the article version of this thread is up now as a news post on the front page.

As it states at the start, it sort of ended up being an amalgamated re-write based on a lot of the contributors to the thread, so thanks everybody for helping out!  

@Varnafinde 

During World War II Norway was oocupied by Germany, and some percentage of Norwegian women got involved (to varoius degrees) with German soldiers. Some of these women were attacked by mobs after the liberation in 1945 and had their hair cut off. Definitely meant as humiliation.

I know that sort of thing did go on in France, which I knew about, from reading books such as Carve her Name with Pride, on a Duke of Edinburgh reading list. Definitely in Auschwitz, where there is on display, a great glass case set in the wall, holding human hair. Such hair-shaving may also have been inflicted on some men & women, Jewish or not, in concentration camps, such as Ravensbrück, where Violette Szabo and other captured British SOE operatives were tortured & executed. Corrie Ten Boom, who survived that hellish place, has also written about her experiences, there. 

@Courtenay

I'd never thought specifically of the parallel between the White Witch shaving Aslan and Delilah shaving Samson —

It was the first thing that occurred to me, when Tom Jones' famous song, Why? Why? Why, Delilah! was so very, very popular, from the 1970's onwards. On a ship far away, sailing in 2015, in the Mediterranean, on the way to ANZAC Cove for the 25/4/2015 ANZAC Centenary, we all broke out in that particular song one evening, along with Peter Allen's I still call Australia Home. The original Delilah was hired by the Philistine chiefs, to find out the secret of his great strength, but failed 3 times to do so before she finally succeeded. 

Thus, Samson, who in the Bible account, killed a lion with the jawbone of an ass, was blinded, in addition to being bound & held captive, just like Aslan on the Stone Table, though unlike Aslan, he was not killed. Instead, he was set to mill grain in Gaza City. Samson died, when his hair grew back, & after praying to God, by pushing apart two pillars between which he had been allowed to rest, thus bringing down the Temple of Dagon on top of himself as well as Philistine worshippers.  

Don't worry, I fixed the reference to change it to @icarus.

And now, back to the topic please? 

I see another difference between the shaving of Aslan and of Samson. Samson didn't have his hair cut to humiliate him, but primarily to take his strength away from him.

Aslan was humiliated. There was no need to try to take his strength from him, he voluntarily chose not to use it. And the witch then mocked him for being gullible and entering into what she thought was a bad agreement.