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And there were anointers called "Untori,"
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or poisoners,
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who were out to destroy people.
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This was a diabolical plot,
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and so a hunt was often on to find the culprits.
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Let me give two famous and notorious examples,
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a first and early one at Strasbourg in the fourteenth century,
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where rumor had it--you'll remember in the fourteenth century,
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the Jews were cast out of the Iberian Peninsula,
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and the panicked fear
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was that they were carrying out a plot
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as vengeance to destroy Christian Europe