Jewish Ritual Murder, 17th-19th Centuries
“1603. Verona. A jew was tried on a charge of killing a child to get its blood for an infamous purpose. He was acquitted.
“1670. Metz. As this was a very strongly established case, one does not find any mention of it in Strack’s book in defence of the jews! A three-year-old boy was lost by his mother on the way to a well. The boy was wearing a red cap, and witnesses had seen him carried away by a jew mounted on a horse. This jew was Raphael Levi. At first, the boy’s body could not be traced. The jews, becoming frightened, spread the report that wolves must have killed him in the forest.
“The forest was searched and eventually the head, neck and ribs of a boy were found, together with clothes which were identified as the missing boy’s, red cap and all, by the boy’s father. But as these clothes were neither torn nor bloody, it was concluded that the wolf story was a “blind,” and then witnesses came forward who had seen Raphael Levi with the boy in such places and at such times as to remove all doubt of his guilt. Levi was sentenced to death by the order of the Parliament of Metz, and was burned alive. (more…)




