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Why did these Jews continue to engage in such wicked crimes?  Dr. Arnold Leese, who wrote a book about Jewish ritual murder in the early part of the 20th century in England, noted some interesting facts surrounding the incident:

"A converted Jew, called Theobald of Cambridge, confessed that the Jews took blood every year from a Christian child because they thought that only by so doing could they ever obtain their freedom and return to Palestine; and that it was their custom to draw lots to decide whence the blood was to be supplied…"

The tragic murder that occurred to innocent William set a precedent.  Because of Thomas of Monmouth's books that he wrote about the good child, others began to record these wicked deed perpetrated by fanatical Jews.  Time, of course, will not permit me to mention all these wicked acts, but I will mention a few from every century and then elaborate more about a particular case.

In 1243, in Kissengen, Bavaria (Germany), Jews were convicted by a court of law, after having confessed, to having used the blood of Gentiles for occult rites in the Jewish holiday Passover.

In 1255, London, England, a young, innocent Gentile by the name of Hugh was discovered to have been ritually murdered, his punctured body being discovered hidden on a Jew's property.  A court