Nah. From Genzoman's DeviantArt: "Captain Edward Teach, aka blackbeard was a very famous and successful pirate, maybe he is the responsable of almost all the topics related to pirates, somekind of a father of the genere. As a strong man, he was wounded several times in his last fight before to die." iirc, he put the candles you see here on his hat in his beard too, so that when he went into battle his entire head appeared wreathed in flame.
