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Little Saint Hugh: England’s Worst Blood Libel Craze

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abraham of Kent, Adam of Bristol, anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, armed pilgrimage, Beilis Affair, Beilis Case, blood libel, Cahorsins, Caursines, Christendom, Christianity, Coin-Clipping Scandal of 1279, conspiracy theories, Copin, Count Theobald V of Blois, Domus Conversorum, Edward I, England, English Civil Wars, First Crusade, France, Franciscans, Fulda, Geoffrey Chaucer, Germany, Hapsburg Austria, Harold of Gloucester, Henry III, Holy Land, Hopkins Witch Panic, House of Converts, Hugh of Lincoln, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, John of Lexington, King John, Lachrymabilem judaeorum, legends, Licoricia of Winchester, Lincoln Cathedral, Little Saint Hugh, Medieval Era, Menahem Mendel Beilis, Middle Ages, monks, Norman conquest of England, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Passion of Christ, People’s Crusade, pogroms, Pope Gregory VII, Popish Plot, Richard I, Richard of Devizes, Richard the Lionheart, ritual murder accusations, Robert of Bury, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Saint Cecilia, Saint Swithun, Serbia, Sicut Judaeis, Statute of the Jewry, Statutum de Judaismo, Theobald of Cambridge, Thomas of Monmouth, vampires, Walk to Canossa, William of Norwich, Winchester, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins on September 24, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Origins of Vampire Stories: When, Where, and How

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arnold Paole, Austria, bloodsuckers, Bram Stoker, caliphate, Catholicism, Central Europe, Christendom, Counter-Reformation, Devil, disease, Dracula, Enlightened despot, Enlightenment, Europe, Flückinger, folklore, Frederick the Great, Frombald, Glaser, Habsburg Empire, Habsburgs, hajduk, Hammer of Witches, Heinrich Kramer, Hell, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, homosexuality, Hungarian disease, Immanuel Kant, Imperialism, Islam, Jews, Johann Friedrich Glaser, Kievan Rus, Kisiljevo, Kucklina, Latin Christendom, Lord Byron, Malleus Maleficarum, Maria Theresa, medieval period, Medveđa, Michael Ranft, Middle Ages, Morbus hungaricus, Nachzehrer, Nazis, Nazism, Norsemen, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, paganism, pagans, Papal Revolution, Petar Blagojević, philosophe, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince Eugene of Savoy, propaganda, Protestantism, Romania, Saints, Salem, Salem witch trials, Satan, Satanism, Serbia, siege of Vienna, Slavs, soothsaying, sorcery, supernatural, superstition, The Chewing and Chomping of the Dead in their Graves, The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, theology, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Thomas Acquinas, Thomas M. Bohn, Transylvania, typhus, upiór, vampires, vampirism, Vikings, Visum et Repertum, Vlad the Impaler, werewolves, witch craze, witchcraft, witches on August 17, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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