Red hair is so-called, from the notion that Judas had red hair.
“Rosalind. His very hair is of the dissembling colour [red].
Celia. Somewhat browner than Judas’s.”—Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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