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> No doubt but that this notion was widespread. I have seen > vernacular French poetry from the 13th c. on little Hugh of Lincoln and > Prof. Robert Stacey at U. Washington recently found what we both think is > the MS of a play in French (from Bristol!) dealing with ritual murder by > Jews of Xian children. The Latin text has been edited in the journal ASCHKENAS, 5 (1995): pp. 293-330. And in the last line on p. 327, read 'benedicat' instead of 'benedicit'. I now agree with Stacey that there was a miracle play behind it (I was more hesitant in my introduction, p. 300), though I would say that the transmitted text is drama put into prose. Christoph %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%