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They Tell Lies: You ate the Man’: Jewish Reactions to Ritual Murder Accusations
in: Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews, pp. 86-100
Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002.
Historia Brittonum
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 [828].
The story of the prophet Zakariya (a conflation of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, and the Old Testament prophet Zachariah), who according to Muslim legend died a martyr's death. Escaping his pursuers by hiding in a tree that miraculously opened to admit him, Zakariya was betrayed by Iblis, the devil, who pointed out the hem of the prophet's cloak protruding from the trunk. The devil's forces sawed the tree apart and with it Zakariya, whose saintly aura is shown as flames bursting among the leaves. (1550-1560)
from: from a dispersed copy of the Falnama (Book of Omens)
Worcester Art Museum