Historical Ritual Murder Accusations Against Jews

Of where they went time and time again, the Jews would be accused of the same ritual crimes.

Four hundred eighteen AD, Baronius reports the crucifixion of a boy by the Jews at Im, between Aleppo and Antioch.

Four hundred nineteen AD, in the Syrian district of Imnestar, between Chalcis and Antioch, the Jews tied a boy to a cross on a holiday and flogged him to death.

Four hundred twenty-five AD, Baronius reports the crucifixion of a boy.

Six hundred fourteen AD, after the conquest of Jerusalem, the Jews purchased for a small amount of money ninety thousand prisoners from the Persian King Chosros II and murdered them all in the most disgusting of ways.

Ten seventy-one AD, several Jews from Blois crucified a child during the Easter celebration, put his body into a sack and threw it into the Loire.

Count Theobald had the guilty ones burned alive.

Eleven forty-four AD, in Norwich during Passover, twelve-year-old Saint William was tied by the local Jews, hanged from a cross, and his blood drained from a wound in his side.

The Jews hid the corpse in the nearby woods.

They were surprised by a local citizen, Elverjus, who was bribed with money to keep quiet.

Despite this, the crime still became notorious.

Eleven sixty AD, the Jews of Gloucester