Jewish Conspiracy
On October 30th 1348 at chattel near Geneva, a Jews named Agiment was put to torture and later he made the confession that he poisoned the wells of the Germans. He said that on his way to Venice to buy silk, he met another rabbi that gave his the poison made from the skin of the basilisk and reptiles (spiders, frogs and snakes). The Germans also concluded that the poison was made from the heart of the Christian and fragment of the host (poison was made from the Holy- Communion). This Jewish man confessed that he poisoned the public fountain of Toulouse and the wells near the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this confession, Jews who lived from the city close to the sea to those who live in Germany were burnt alive or were killed. 3 cities did not believe that the Jews committed these crimes so they did not punish the Jewish that lives these 3 cities. The city of Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basil did not punish their Jews yet.
The citizens of these cities marched and protested that the Jews should not be allowed into the cities for the next 200 years. There was a conference held because of the protest and the authorities of these cities gave in. The Jews in these cities were burnt alive or they were expelled. If the peasants saw them, they would stab them to death or drown them. The city council of Strasbourg that wanted to save its Jews was removed from power and the council began to arrest the Jews on February the 13th. This is why February the 13th is seen as a bad day.
The people believed that the Jews started the Black Death because of their study of the Kabbalah. The Germans and other Christians believed that the Kabbalah intensified mystical and astrological content over time. They conceived that the Kabbalah which holds recipes for magic, poison and spells constituted a kind of black magic. Witchcraft in the England was connected to the Kabbalah somehow. After the death of the Jews, archbishops and clergies would take the properties of the Jews. Another belief that the Jews were responsible for the Black Death was because their population of Jews killed by the Death was the lowest in Europe.
Serpent and Cosmic Dust
Historian believed that the Black Death was caused by the bubonic Plague spread by parasites. Another infectious disease was Anthrax from cattle (Cows). The Medieval explanation of the Death was reptiles. Snakes were believed to be the cause of the poison. Study showed how England suffered 3 days of calamities, it terrified the country. This includes the rain of frogs, serpents, lizards and scorpion. Also the rain of fire and reptiles released from below the ground after earthquake. Peregrine Horden commented that in the medieval minds, mythical serpents and dragons are to a large extent interchangeable and that dragons are characterize by poisonous, pestilential breath. Also there is a story recounted by Bishop Gregory of Tours that said that a great school, of water snakes swan down the rivers to the sea in their midst was a tremendous dragon as big as a tree trunk, but the monster were drowned in the sea and their body were washed up the shore. There then followed a plague epidemic in the city. Snakes were to blame for the Black Death.
Another theory of the origin of the Black Death is from outer space. According to Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe that materials resembling organic grains falls from space resulting in an immense # of bacteria and viruses that fall each year into animals and plants. They argue that the generalized spread of Black Death with exceptionally gaps is entirely consistent with a fall of pathogens from space. “There is no marching army of plague stricken rats. The rats died in places they were” (Hoyle 181).
Quote
“Christians might well suspects that among…of the Kabbalah were arcane recipes for magic and poison and spells, that the Kabbalah constituted a king of Black Magic” (Cantor 151).
Reaction
I believe that the Jews were attact because Religiously they are chosen as God’s people and other people are trying to make them suffer. I also think that the Jewish guy was force to say what he said about the poison because in the reading not only him had confessed to the crime. The archbishops just wanted the wealth of the Jews and killing them was an easy way to take over their properties. Hitler also used this to accuse the Jews before he ordered them to the crematories.
I don’t understand how matters would fall from space unto animals and cause a plague that would wipe out a lot of people. There is not water in space so how do materials resemble organic matters able to survive up there.
I thought that it was fascinating to know that there had been conspiracy towards the Jews before the Holocaust and how both can be linked together, because of their faith and religion
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