Note 41 — Chapter V · ALGECIRAS—TARIFA.

This practice was also known in Spain. “In 1445 a report was spread that the Jews had undermined the streets of Toledo,—through which, on the festival of Corpus Christi, the procession of the Host was to pass—with the intention of setting fire to it at the time. The mob would have fallen on them had not the authorities proved the report to be false, and prevented the massacre.”—Lindo’s Jews of Spain, p. 226.