Editing Blood libel (section)

===Renaissance and Baroque===
[[File:Judensau Frankfurt.jpg|thumb|upright|From an 18th-century etching from Brückenturm. ''Above'': The murdered body of Simon of Trent. ''Below'': The "[[Judensau]]"]]

* Simon of Trent, aged two, disappeared in 1475, and his father alleged that he had been kidnapped and murdered by the local Jewish community. Fifteen local Jews were sentenced to death and burned. Simon was regarded locally as a saint, although he was never canonised by the church of Rome. He was removed from the Roman Martyrology in 1965 by [[Pope Paul VI]].
* Christopher of Toledo, also known as Christopher of La Guardia or "the [[Holy Child of La Guardia]]", was a four-year-old Christian boy supposedly murdered in 1490 by two Jews and three [[converso]]s (converts to Christianity). In total, eight men were executed. It is now believed<ref>Reston, James: "Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the defeat of the Moors", p. 207. Doubleday, 2005. {{ISBN|0-385-50848-4}}</ref> that this case was constructed by the [[Spanish Inquisition]] to facilitate the [[Alhambra decree|expulsion of Jews from Spain]].
* In a case at Tyrnau (Nagyszombat, today [[Trnava]], Slovakia), the absurdity, even the impossibility, of the statements forced by torture from women and children shows that the accused preferred death as a means of escape from the torture, and admitted everything that was asked of them. They even said that Jewish men menstruated and that the latter therefore practiced the drinking of Christian blood as a remedy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H420D6|doi=10.7916/D89Z9CT6|date=November 2009|author1=Dentler, Jonathan|title=Sexing The Jewish Body: Male Menstruation Libel and the Making of Modern Gender }}</ref>
* At Bösing (Bazin, today [[Pezinok]], Slovakia), it was charged that a nine-year-old boy had been bled to death, suffering cruel torture; thirty Jews confessed to the crime and were publicly burned. The true facts of the case were disclosed later when the child was found alive in Vienna. He had been taken there by the accuser, Count Wolf of Bazin, as a means of ridding himself of his Jewish creditors at Bazin.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harvey|first=Richard S.|date=2015-05-27|title=27 May 1529 Blood Libel and Burning to Death of 30 Jews in Bazin, Hungary #otdimjh|url=https://jewinthepew.org/2015/05/27/27-may-1529-blood-libel-and-burning-to-death-of-30-jews-in-bazin-hungary-otdimjh/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=On This Day in Messianic Jewish History|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Jelinek |first=Yeshayahu |author-link=Yeshayahu Jelínek |year=2007 |orig-date= |others=[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] article |title=Pezinok |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/pezinok |access-date=25 February 2023 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |edition=2}}</ref>
* In [[Rinn]], near [[Innsbruck]], a boy named [[Andreas Oxner]] (also known as Anderl von Rinn) was said to have been bought by Jewish merchants and cruelly murdered by them in a forest near the city, his blood being carefully collected in vessels. The accusation of drawing off the blood (without murder) was not made until the beginning of the 17th century when the cult was founded. The older inscription in the church of Rinn, dating from 1575, is distorted by fabulous embellishments{{snd}} for example, that the money paid for the boy to his godfather turned into leaves, and that a lily blossomed upon his grave. The cult continued until officially prohibited in 1994, by the Bishop of Innsbruck.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rinn.html Medieval Sourcebook: A Blood Libel Cult: Anderl von Rinn, d. 1462] www.fordham.edu.</ref>
* On 17 January 1670, [[Raphael Levy]], a member of the Jewish community of [[Metz]], was executed on charges of the ritual murder of a peasant child who had gone missing in the woods outside the village of [[Glatigny, Moselle|Glatigny]] on 25 September 1669, the eve of [[Rosh Hashanah]].<ref>Edmund Levin, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303973704579357000706882812 The Exoneration of Raphael Levy], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 2 February 2014. Accessed 10 October 2016.</ref>
* [[Sandomierz]], a city in [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]], has been the venue of a number of blood libel cases, leading to the torture and execution of several people.<ref name=Sand>{{cite web |author= Daniel Tilles |title= The "compelling need for truth": reflections on Sandomierz's blood-libel plaque |date= 25 February 201 |website= Notes from Poland |url= https://notesfrompoland.com/2015/02/25/the-compelling-need-for-truth-reflections-on-sandomierzs-blood-libel-plaque/ |access-date= 5 December 2023}}</ref> One such case from 1698 involved Małgorzata, a dead two-year-old Christian girl whose corpse was deposited in a church mortuary by her mother, and the Jew she accused under torture, Aleksander Berek.<ref name=Sand/> Both the mother and Berek were executed.<ref name=Sand/> Other cases are known from earlier dates, and in 1710 another one followed: the body of a boy, Jerzy Krasnowski, was found, a local rabbi was accused of killing him, with the result that the rabbi along with several other Jews died in prison during the proceeding, and three more Jews were sentenced and executed.<ref name=Sand/>
[[File:Antisemitic-church-fresco.jpg|thumb|[[Fresco]] in St Paul's Church in [[Sandomierz]], Poland, depicting blood libel]]