This cursed Jew hym hente, and heeld hym faste,
And kitte his throte, and in a pit hym caste.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Prioress’ Tale. The anti-Semetic prejudices of the Prioress completely take over here, as she tells how the Jews hire a murderer to cut the young Christian boy’s throat and cast his body into a pit.