Show DIE HARD A superstition is the hardest thing in the world to kill you my may bray it in a mortar or grind it between the upper and nether mill stones but it comes out the same old superstition in Germany that old mendacious superstition that caused so 80 much bloodshed in the middle ages has come up briskly onre once more at xanten a jewish butcher was recently put on trial for killing a christian child to serve as a jewish sacrifice he was acquitted that goes without saying but the anti semitic journals are using the case to whip up popular indignation against the hebrew race but the age of superstition is interesting the amans as dr blimberg would say may used it as a campaign lie in and the slander has bus followed the race in to all parts of the earth it gave birth to the old ballad hugh of lincoln in 1255 the jews of lincoln were accused of stealing a little boy named hugh whom they tortured for ten days aud and then crucified eighteen Bight een of the richest jews in town were hanged banged and the little boy hugh was buried with great pomp then a mau man wrote the ferocious ballad it rains rain it rains in m merry erry scotland it ra rains a both great and small and all the boys in merrie scotland ruel must needs go play at ball you shall bear small dinall lads ads over ses BOA sing that today marching about in a sort of I 1 iri ng rou rid nd the roses game then the ferocious ballad goes on to tell how one of the children accidental ly threw the ball into the jews garden where the jews all sat eat in a row Is one of the jews daughters a dressed all in green J tempted the lad into the garden by means of an apple red as any blood and a gay gold ring this thia to is what happened according to little ittle hugh they set me in a chair of state and gave me sugar sweet they laid me on a dresser board and stuck me like a sheep they rolled me up in a roll of lead instead of a winding sheet and the well that they did sink me in was five and forty fort feet deep tu lu gooral lu ln roo layl lay i and now again the old superstition supers titio n brisk as ever is going its mendacious way one man can start a lie rolling but a thousand men cant stop it |