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forest], where they slew him, sacrificed his body with their customary ritual, partook of his fesh, and, while immolating the Greek, swore an oath of hostility to the Greeks. The remains of their victim were thrown into a pit."

In the first millennium of the current era, in the year 300, Bishop Eusebius of Caesaria said that Jews in all communities ritually murdered Christians during their Purim festivals.

In the year 415, Socrates Scholasticus reported that Jews of Inmestar bound a Gentile child on a cross and poked him until he died.

In 425, Baronius reported Jews had crucified a child.

In 614, the monk Antiochus Strategos reports that when Jerusalem fell to the Persians, Jews purchased one of the Gentiles who had been captured from the Persians and "slew him like a sheep."

In 1067 Prague, six Jews reportedly drained blood from a three-year-old child.  It was also discovered that these Jews had dispersed the child's blood, giving it to other Jews in Treviso.

In 1096, a child by the name of Efstraty was reportedly discovered having been ritually murdered in what is now known as the city Kiev.  He was later made a saint.