It appears that a considerable number of Ashkenazi Jews traditionally regarded Christian blood as having powerful magical properties and considered it a very valuable component of certain important ritual observances at particular religious holidays. Obviously, obtaining such blood in large amounts was fraught with considerable risk, which greatly enhanced its monetary value, and the trade in the vials of that precious commodity seems to have been widely practiced. Toaff notes that since the detailed descriptions of the Jewish ritualistic murder practices are very similarly described in locations widely separated by geography, language, culture, and time period, they are almost certainly independent observations of the same rite. Furthermore, he notes that when accused Jews were caught and questioned, they often correctly described obscure religious rituals which could not possibly have been known to their Gentile interrogators, who often garbled minor details. Thus, these confessions were very unlikely to have been concocted by the authorities.
Furthermore, as extensively discussed by Shahak, the world-view of traditional Judaism did involve a very widespread emphasis on magical rituals, spells, charms, and similar things, providing a context in which ritualistic murder and human sacrifice would hardly be totally unexpected.
Obviously, the ritual murder of Christian children for their blood was viewed with enormous disfavor by the local Gentile population, and the widespread belief in its existence remained a source of bitter tension between the two communities, flaring up occasionally when a Christian child mysteriously disappeared at a particular time of year, or when a body was found that exhibited suspicious types of wounds or showed a strange loss of blood. Every now and then, a particular case would reach public prominence, often leading to a political test of strength between Jewish and anti-Jewish groups. During the mid-19th century, there was one such famous case in French-dominated Syria, and just before the outbreak of the First World War, Russia was wracked by a similar political conflict in the 1913 Beilis Affair in the Ukraine.
He's a solid historian, the son of Elio Toaff, late former Chief Rabbi of Rome.
They wanted to imprison him in Israel for his book. It's historical only, no modern examples, but even the historic practise of collecting the blood of christian children is denied by Israel and the ADL and talk of it labelled antisemitic.
However it occured, and was a major reason for bad feeling against Jews in general and them being kicked out of countries and "persecuted".
They would dry the blood into a powder, or granules, (as is done with pigs blood to make blood sausage or "black pudding") and exchange it among themselves for use in rituals. It was very expensive.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-bloody-passovers-of-dr-toaff/
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/bloody-passovers-of-dr-toaff-follow-up/
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2012/04/diabolical-passion-ariel-toaffs-blood-passovers/
Nice, looks like there's a great deal of books written. I'll have to look into ordering them if they aren't too pricey.
Here's a PDF of the Ariel Toaff book.
https://files.catbox.moe/ojwe6d.pdf
He's a solid historian, the son of Elio Toaff, late former Chief Rabbi of Rome.
They wanted to imprison him in Israel for his book. It's historical only, no modern examples, but even the historic practise of collecting the blood of christian children is denied by Israel and the ADL and talk of it labelled antisemitic.
However it occured, and was a major reason for bad feeling against Jews in general and them being kicked out of countries and "persecuted".
They would dry the blood into a powder, or granules, (as is done with pigs blood to make blood sausage or "black pudding") and exchange it among themselves for use in rituals. It was very expensive.