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were directed against Jews (and closely linked to the accusations of ritual murder discussed by Miri Rubin in Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge, 1991) and Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (Yale, 1999)) and witches (see Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500 (London, 1976), passim and Reay Tannahill, Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex (London, 1975), pp. 92–107), as well as the Tafurs, a troop of hungry desperadoes who, at Antioch
