Editing Death by burning (section)

====Burnings of Jews====
[[File:Doutielt1.jpg|thumb|Representation of a massacre of the Jews in the 1349 Anti-Jew riots, that was justified by allegations that Jews were behind the [[Black Death|Black Death Epidemic]]. ''Antiquitates Flandriae'' ([[Royal Library of Belgium]] manuscript 1376/77).]]

Several incidents are recorded of massacres on [[Jews]] from the 12th through 16th centuries in which they were burned alive, often on account of the [[blood libel]]. In 1171 in [[Blois]], 51 Jews were burned alive (the entire adult community). In 1191, King [[Philip Augustus]] ordered around 100 Jews burnt alive.<ref>Both incidents in ''Weiss'' (2004), [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=oJOvpkHg7msC |page=104 }} p. 104]</ref> That Jews purportedly performed [[host desecration]] also led to mass burnings; In 1243 in [[Beelitz]], the entire Jewish community was burnt alive, and in 1510 in [[Berlin]], 26 Jews were burnt alive for the same crime.<ref>''Prager, Telushkin'' (2007), {{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=VK0llzUqQ2YC |page=87 }}</ref> During the "[[Black Death]]" in the mid-14th century a spate of large-scale [[Persecution of Jews during the Black Death|massacres]] occurred. One libel was that the Jews had [[well poisoning|poisoned the wells]]. In 1349, as panic grew along with the increasing death toll from the plague, general massacres, but also specifically mass burnings, began to occur. Six hundred Jews were burnt alive in [[Basel]] alone. A large mass burning occurred in [[Strasbourg]], where several hundred Jews were burnt alive in what became known as the [[Strasbourg massacre]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.asp | title=Internet History Sourcebooks Project }}</ref>

A Jewish man, Johannes Pfefferkorn, met a particularly gruesome death in 1514 in [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]. He had been accused of having impersonated a priest for twenty years, performing [[host desecration]], stealing Christian children to be tortured and killed by other Jews, poisoning 13 people and poisoning wells. He was lashed to a pillar in such a way that he could run about it. Then, a ring of glowing coal was made around him, and gradually pushed ever closer to him, until he was roasted to death.<ref>''Bülau'' (1860), {{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=z4YBAAAAQAAJ |page=423–424 }}</ref>