Painting by artist Munkácsy Mihály, realized between 1882-1887, at the request of Russian tzar, Alexander III, and inspired by sacrifice--by crucifiction and blood letting--of 14 year-old Solymosi Eszter.

Depiction of ritual sacrifice of Simon of Trent.

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1462AD: Rinn near Innsbruck the boy Andreas Oxner was sold and sacrificed. The church canonized him. A chapel called "Zum Judenstein" ('To the Jews' Rock') was built. (Acta sancta., III. July Vol I. 472)

1468AD: Sepulveda, in Old Castile, a woman is crucified on Good Friday (Did. de Colm. Gesch. v. Seg.)

1475AD: Trent on March 23rd (Maundy Thursday) before Passover,  29-month-old baby, St. Simon, is crucified and has his blood drained.

1476AD: Regensburg-six children murdered. The judge, in the underground vault of Josfol, found the remains of the murdered victims as well as a stone bowl speckled with blood on a kind of altar. (Raderus Bavaria sancta Band III, 174)

1480AD: Treviso, a crime similar to the one in Trent was committed: the murder of the canonized Sebastiano of Porto-Buffole from Bergamo. They drained his blood. (H. Desportes, Le mystere du sang 80)

1480AD: Motta in Venice a child killed at Easter. (Acta sancta I. Bd d. April 3)

1485AD: Vicenza, they butchered St. Laurentius. (Pope Benedict XIV Bull. Beatus Andreas)

1490AD: Guardia, near Toledo, a child is crucified. (Acta sancta I. Bd. d. April 3)

1494AD: Tyrnau in Hungary, a boy is seized, his veins opened and his blood collected. They drank some of it and preserved the rest for their co-religionists. (Banfin Fasti, ungar. br. III. Dec. 5)

1503AD: Langendenzlingen a father handed his 4-year-old child over to people from Waldkirchen in Baden for 10 florins under the condition that he would be returned alive after a small amount of blood had been drained. However, they drained so much blood from the child that it died. (Acta sancta. II Bd. des April p. 839: Dr. Joh. Eck, Judebbuchlien)

1505AD: A crime, similar to the one in Langendenzlingen in 1503, was attempted at Budweis in Bohemia. (Henri Desportes, Le mystere du sang. 81)

1509AD: Bosingen (Hungary) child is kidnapped, dragged to the cellar, tortured horribly, veins opened and sucked out blood with quills. Afterwards they threw his body in a hedge. (Ziegler Schonplatz p. 588, col. 1,2)

1510AD: Berlin, perpetrators buy a three- or four-year-old boy for 10 florins from a stranger, lay him on a table in a cellar, and puncture him with needles in the large blood-rich veins until he was finally slaughtered by the butcher. An enormous trial began, and eventually a hundred were locked in the Berlin prison. They partially admitted to having bought children from strangers, stabbing them, draining their blood, and drinking the blood or preserving it with tomatoes, ginger, and honey. No fewer than 41 of the accused were sentenced to death-by-burning after their confession.  (Richard Mun: 'The Jews in Berlin')

1520AD: Hungary- repeated the crime of 1494 by murdering a child in Tyrnau and Biring, and draining its blood. (Acta sancta II. Bd. d. April p. 839)

1525AD: A ritual murder in Budapest caused a widespread anti-Semitic movement among the population. In this year the Jews were expelled from Hungary (Henry Desportes, Le mystere du sang 81)

1540AD: Sappenfeld in Bavaria, 4-year-old Michael Pisenharter was kidnapped from his father before Easter and taken to Titting (North of Ingolstadt), where he suffered the most horrible tortures for three days, his veins were opened and his blood drained. The corpse showed signs of a crucifixion. The blood was found in Posingen. (Raderus, Bavaria sancta. III. Bd. 176f)

1547AD: Rava in Poland 2 a tailor's boy named Michael is stolen and crucifie him. (Acta sancta II. Bd. April p. 839)

1573AD: Berlin a child who had been purchased from a beggar was tortured to death. (Sartorious p. 53)

1574AD: Punia in Latvia, Smierlowitz killed a 7- year-old girl called Elizabeth shortly before Passover... At about this time a boy in Zglobice was stolen and taken to Tarnow, where another boy was found under suspicious circumstances: both were freed in time. (Act. sancta II. Bd. d. April p. 839)

1592AD: Wilna, a 7-year-old boy, Simon, was horribly tortured to death. More than 170 wounds, made by knives and scissors, were found on his body, besides the numerous cuts under his finger- and toe-nails. (Acta sancta III. Bd. des Juli)

1595AD: Costyn in Posen a child was tortured to death. (Acta sancta 389)

1597AD: Szydlov the blood of a child was used in the consecration of a new synagogue. The eyelids, neck, veins, limbs, and even the sexual organs of the child showed countless punctures. (Acta sancta, II Bd. des April)

1598AD: Wodznick, in Podolia, the 4-year-old... son of a farmer was stolen and butchered for four days before Passover by the most horrible tortures in which the most respected members of the community took part. (Acta sancta, II Band des April 835)

1650AD: Kaaden in Steiermark, 5½-year-old Mathias Tillich was butchered on March 11th. (Tentzel)

1655AD: Tunguch in Lower Germany a child murdered for their celebration. (Tentzel, monatl. Unterred. v. Juli 1693 p. 553)

1665AD: Vienna a woman is butchered 12th of May in the most dreadful way. The corpse was found in a pond in a sack weighted with stones. It was completely covered with wounds, decapitated and the legs were cut off below the knees. (H.A. von Ziegler, Tagl. Schaupl. p. 553)

1669AD:  Glatigny, on Sept. 22nd, a 3-year-old child was stolen from his mother. He was horribly butchered. His body was found viciously mutilated. The murderer was burned alive on Jan. 17th in 1670. (Abrege du proces fait aux Juifs de Metz, ebd. 1670)

1675AD: Miess in Bohemia a 4-year-old child was murdered on March 12th. (Acta sancta II. Bd. des April)

1684AD: Grodno, Minsk government in Russia,  6-year-old boy Gabriel is stolen and carried to Bialystock where he was tortured to death and his blood drained. (Records of the magistrate at Zabludvo)

1753AD: On Good Friday, the 20th of April, in a village near Kiev (Russia), the 3½-year-old son of the nobleman Studzinski was kidnapped, hidden in a tavern until the end of the Sabbath, and then monstrously sacrificed. The blood was poured into several bottles. (Criminal Register of the City Court of Kiev)

1764AD: 10-year-old son of Johann Balla, who had disappeared on the 19th of June from Orkul (Hungary), was found in a neighboring wood covered with many wounds. (Tisza-Eslar, von einem ungarischen Ubgeordneten 108)

1791AD: 21st of February, the corpse of 13-year-old Andreas Takals was found outside a village near Tasnad (Siebenburgen). The blood had been drained from him by severing his jugular vein. (Ger.-Akt i.d. Archiv. v. Zilah.)

1791AD: At the same time two blood murders were reported at Holleschau (Moravia) and at Woplawicz in the District of Duplin. (Tisza-Eslar, v.e. ungar. Abgeord.)

1803 A.D. -- On March 10th a 2-year-old child is sezied in Buchof near Nuremberg. On the 12th day the child was found dead, his tongue sliced and his mouth full of blood. The Jews besieged the district governor of Newstadt at that time until the matter turned out to their satisfaction. The father was forced under threats to sign a protocol, to which it attested that the child, still warm when he was found, had frozen to death. (Friedr. Oertel, "Was glauben die Juden?" Bamberg, 1823)

1810AD: Among the records of the Damascus trial a letter exists from John Barker, ex-consul of Aleppo, which speaks of a poor person who suddenly disappeared from Aleppo. She was butchered and had all her blood drained.  (A. Laurent. Affaires de Syrie)

1812AD: Corfu in October a child is strangled. Some time later, the child of a Greek, called Riga, was stolen and killed. (Achille Laurent, Affaires de Syrie)

1823AD: Velisch in the Russian government of Vitebsk, the 3½- year-old son of the invalid Jemelian Ivanov was stolen, tortured to death, and his blood drained. Despite a great deal of statements by witnesses, the trial was suddenly stopped. (Pavlikovsky, ebenda.)

1824AD: Beirut the interpreter Fatch-allah-Seyegh murdered for ritual purposes. 1826AD: Warsaw a murdered 5-year-old boy was found whose body had more than a hundred wounds showing that his blood had been drained. The depositions made to the courts, together with the medical evidence, were removed from the documents. (Pavlikovski, wie oben p. 282) 1827AD: Vilna in Russia the stabbed corpse of a farmer's child, Ossib Petrovicz, was found. According to the testimony of the 16-year-old shepherd Zulovski, he was kidnapped. (Nach einer Mitteilung des gouvernement Vilna.) 1829AD: Turin the wife of the merchant Antoine Gervalon was kidnapped from her husband. In the cellar she was prepared for her sacrifice. With her last bit of strength she answered her husband who was walking near with several soldiers, calling her name aloud. Thus, she was freed. However, the perpetrators Jews managed to hush up the incident with money. (Auszug aus einem Briefe des Barons von Kalte )

1831AD: Killing of the daughter of a corporal of the Guard in St. Petersburg. Four judges recognized it as a blood murder, while a fifth doubted it. (Desportes)

1834AD: According to a testimony, an old man in Tripoli was tied up by and hanged from an orange tree by his toes. At the moment when the old man was close to death they cut his throat with a butcher knife and let the body hang until all the blood had been collected into a bowl. (Henri Desportes, Le mystere du sang. 91)

1839AD: Rhodes, and 8-year-old merchant's boy, who was delivering eggs did not return. Money and power took effect, and the court proceedings were delayed and finally suppressed. (Henri Desportes, Le mystere du sang. 92)

1839AD: Damascus the customs office discovered someone carrying a bottle of blood. 10,000 piasters was offered to hush up the affair. (cf. Prozess bei A. Laurent, op. cit. S. 301)