The story of Simon Abeles became an integral part of the folklore of Central Europe, and like other similar superstitions about ritual murder, it still lives its own life in the world of anti-Jewish propaganda.
The picture shows an engraving for a leaflet, probably a woodcut after tableau for a tavern song from 1694. Wandering storytellers in the markets used a pointer to tell the then still mostly illiterate people the story of the terrible murder that the Jews had committed in Prague.
Do you have any idea how similar stories are being spread today?