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Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
The story begins with the discovery of a child’s body. Most commonly it is a boy, though occasionally it could be more than one child, or a girl. The body might be discovered in a sewer drainage ditch, perhaps in a wood. The setting is generally a medieval town. The child is a Christian and he is young. He could be two years old or twelve. He might have been missing for days, or just overnight. But the body’s discovery is only the beginning. What happens afterward hinges on religious hostility and the misunderstandings it has often fed between Christian... Hannah R. Johnson, OPEN ACCESS