In the mob’s damning stares, the shtetl woman saw reflections of not only burning torches but also burning hypocrisy, and this the worse conflagration. It wasn’t enough that they’d spread their shameful lies to her customers. It wasn’t enough that they’d marked and ransacked her market stall. They, whose children daily enjoyed the fruits of her sister-kin’s bloody toils, now dared bring their accusations of blood libel to a part of town they’d otherwise never deign to enter and to the door of her family home?! No, not this night, she thought, not without real sacrifice. For that was what they accused, and that was what they demanded, wasn’t it? So be it then.
“Yes! Yes, I drank of your child’s blood!” she moaned at her nearest accuser. “And yours,” she cried to the next. “He’s the fat one, isn’t he? Tonight I’ll bathe in his!” The crowd inhaled a ghastly gasp. “And yours!” And another. “And yours!” The horde receded. “And tomorrow the streets will run red with goyim baby blood!”
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