μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general *DeVooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen (Den Haag, 1926) 199ff.
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Christian child killed to furnish blood for Jewish rite. (Hugh of Lincoln.) (Cf. V254.7.)Plague from Jews' poisoning wellsJewish child thrown into oven by father for taking eucharist. Preserved by Virgin MaryA Christianized Jew becomes a priest. During Mass, he stabs the consecrated host, blood flows (cf. C55, J1261.2, V30). He kills the other priest who saw him commit the sacrilege, and before killing, forces him to renounce his faith. A miracle exposes the murdererJewish traditions concerning non-Jews

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