mariag
10-08-2007, 08:21 AM
"By the time Aaron was an adolescent, there was widespread anti-Semitism in Russia. Influential newspapers forgot their Jewish sympathies, and anti-Semitic literature appeared, containing both intellectual and obscene content. Anti-Semitism also began to gain a semblance of intellectual respectability as a result of the new 'scientific' anti-Semitism of western, mostly German, origin.
In 1878, when Aaron was 13 or 14 years old, the myth of the "Blood Libel," outlawed by Alexander I, was revived in Kutais in anti-Semitic newspapers like Novoye Vremya. Based in part on the ritual murder of the child Simon of Trent and others, this myth held that the Jews participated in the ritual murder of Christian children, using their blood to appease the wrath of God. Specifically, the blood libel myth held that that "Jews had kidnapped a Christian child, tied him to a cross, stabbed his head to simulate Jesus' crown of thorns, killed him, drained his body of blood and mixed the blood into Passover matzohs." 11 If a Christian child was found murdered near Easter or Passover, there was a good chance that local Jews would be blamed. Into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at least two dozen ritual murder trials took place in Central and Eastern Europe.
The image shown at right shows the murder of Anderl von Rinn, a three year old boy who became the focus of a blood libel cult in the 17th century. The "martyr" Anderl is being murdered by two Jews, who are holding him down as they slit his throat. The text reads: "Sie schneiden dem Marterer, die Gurgl ab und nemen alles Blut von Ihm" ("they cut throat of the martyr and take all blood from him").
The murder of Simon of Trent is said to have occurred during Passover week in 1475, in Trent Italy. The child, who was not yet 3 years of age, was abducted from his home and taken to a house where he was brutally slaughtered by the twin brothers Saligman and Samuel, assisted by others named Tobias, Vitalis, Moses, Israel and Mayr. While Moses strangled the child with a handkerchief, flesh was cut from his neck and the blood collected in a bowl. Pieces of flesh were also cut from his arms and legs, and his body was punctured with needles. Later his body was thrown into the river. Variations on this story were used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda during the Middle Ages."
I came across this when i was searching some clues in the jack the ripper case , and made me curious about this rite ,
what is it ? and is it common for jews? or is it in any other culture or religon?
Is it a form of satanistic ritual?
http://roberthouse.com/other/ak2/ak3.html
I am just curious
In 1878, when Aaron was 13 or 14 years old, the myth of the "Blood Libel," outlawed by Alexander I, was revived in Kutais in anti-Semitic newspapers like Novoye Vremya. Based in part on the ritual murder of the child Simon of Trent and others, this myth held that the Jews participated in the ritual murder of Christian children, using their blood to appease the wrath of God. Specifically, the blood libel myth held that that "Jews had kidnapped a Christian child, tied him to a cross, stabbed his head to simulate Jesus' crown of thorns, killed him, drained his body of blood and mixed the blood into Passover matzohs." 11 If a Christian child was found murdered near Easter or Passover, there was a good chance that local Jews would be blamed. Into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at least two dozen ritual murder trials took place in Central and Eastern Europe.
The image shown at right shows the murder of Anderl von Rinn, a three year old boy who became the focus of a blood libel cult in the 17th century. The "martyr" Anderl is being murdered by two Jews, who are holding him down as they slit his throat. The text reads: "Sie schneiden dem Marterer, die Gurgl ab und nemen alles Blut von Ihm" ("they cut throat of the martyr and take all blood from him").
The murder of Simon of Trent is said to have occurred during Passover week in 1475, in Trent Italy. The child, who was not yet 3 years of age, was abducted from his home and taken to a house where he was brutally slaughtered by the twin brothers Saligman and Samuel, assisted by others named Tobias, Vitalis, Moses, Israel and Mayr. While Moses strangled the child with a handkerchief, flesh was cut from his neck and the blood collected in a bowl. Pieces of flesh were also cut from his arms and legs, and his body was punctured with needles. Later his body was thrown into the river. Variations on this story were used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda during the Middle Ages."
I came across this when i was searching some clues in the jack the ripper case , and made me curious about this rite ,
what is it ? and is it common for jews? or is it in any other culture or religon?
Is it a form of satanistic ritual?
http://roberthouse.com/other/ak2/ak3.html
I am just curious