20 Unbelievable Facts Every Ginger Person Should Know

5. Christian Communities Once Considered Red Hair A Mark Of The Devil

In James George Frazier's The Golden Bough, he discusses characteristics of religions throughout history and states that past Christian communities also shared a distaste for redheaded people. According to Frazier, many past Christian communities believed that "among the marks of the devil were syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, birthmarks, freckles, and-of-course- red hair," as if those things are on a similar par. Who knows where this prejudice came from, but many speculate that old Christian communities believed that Judas was a ginger, which actually inspired many artists to paint Judas with red hair, despite any textual evidence from the Bible. This belief became so abundant that images of ginger Judas could be seen even in the 16th century in England, France, Flanders, and Spain.