Anti-semitic tale of Little Hugh

Feast day of St Little Hugh of Lincoln

The martyrdom by crucifixion of the infant St Hugh (1247 - August, 1255) became a very popular subject for the ballad poetry of the Middle Ages and a focus for the rampant anti-Semitism of the times.

Like St William of Norwich, Hugh was supposed to have been murdered by the Jews of Lincoln. The boy disappeared on July 31, and his body was discovered in a well on August 29 ...

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