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In 1574 Lithuania, in the village of Pona, the Jews reportedly tortured and then murdered a baby for occult rites.
In 1598, in Lyublin, in Kol and in Kutnya, Poland, it was reported that Jews tortured three babies in those three cities. When the incident came to court, all Jews who were involved in the matter were discovered guilty, according to the book by the Russian writer Dr. Vladimir Dal, Notes about the Ritual Murders.
It is difficult to determine how many Jewish occult murders reportedly occurred in history. Montague Summers, a well-respected historian, describes some of his findings in his book The History of Witchcraft and Demonology:
"Closely connected with these ancient sorceries are those ritual murders, of which a learned Premonstratensian Canon of Wilthin, Adrian Kembter, writing in 1745, was able to enumerate no less than 250, the latest of these having taken place in 1650, when at Cadan in Bohemia, Matthias, a lad of four years old, was killed by certain rabbis with seven wounds. In many cases, the evidence is quite conclusive that the body, and especially the blood of the victim, was used for magical purposes."
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