Statement

In 1144 the Jews of Norwich, England, confronted a bizarre charge: when the corpse of a Christian boy named William turned up in the woods, rumor said the town's Jews had kidnapped, tormented and ritually murdered him, as their forebears supposedly did to Jesus. The 1144 accusation was probably the first of its sort and was soon echoed at Blois in 1171. At Norwich the local sheriff looked into it and ruled the charge false.

References

1. p. 200

   supports · boxed feature · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: The Blood Libel and Other Lethal Accusations

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2. p. 200

   supports · boxed feature · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: The Blood Libel and Other Lethal Accusations

   Verification anchor recorded · checked against the page text