What does the phrase the devil's curly hair mean?

Question

I was watching the Simpsons' Movie and Flanders said to his son you have the devil's curly hair. I wasn't sure what that meant but I'm guessing it is an antisemetic phrase.

Answer 1

I'm guessing it says in the bible that curly hair is a sin and/or a sign of the devil. Long hair, eating shrimp, and wearing red are also "sins", according to the bible.

Answer 2

Straightening a Curly Hair
folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 1175
in which a demon is defeated
because he cannot
straighten a curly hair
Contents
The Brahmarâkshas and the Hair (India)

Tapai and the Brahman (India)

The Devil and the Farmer (England)

Tricking the Devil (Germany)

Related links
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1175.html#england
..........EXCERPT/England.....................
Gypsy woman called at the farm house, and seeing the farmer was in trouble, asked him what was the matter. So he up and told her all about it.
Says the Gypsy woman, "When he comes home, you get the missus to give him one of her curly hairs, and then send him to the blacksmith's shop to straighten it on the blacksmith's anvil.

Answer 3

I figured it as Neddy lamenting the ginger tinge of his son's heads. I don't see how that could be anti-Semitic, although there is an anthropological theory that says all red hair has Jewish roots (pardon the pun; perhaps I should have said genealogy). I think ginger-taunting is pretty much a global phenomenon, though it's probably the stupidest basis for an -ism I know of.

Answer 4

thats what i thought. Becaue the stereotypical jew look is big nose with curly hair, though not all jews have big noses or curly hair

Answer 5

Pretty good arguments here.

Answer 6

is it a reference to pubic hair?