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The Jews were the ones who got blamed for outbreaks of diseases. People accused them of poisoning the wells. Which is not true.
He's accused by poisoning the husband of his sister.
The question does not specify when, so here are a few examples:-- in Roman times, Jews were accused of being atheists, because they did not believe in the Roman gods.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of poisoning wells and causing the plague.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of kidnapping Christian children and murdering them to get their blood because that was a necessary ingredient in Passover matzah. This is known as the blood libel.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of murdering Christ, the crime of deicide.-- in medieval times, Jews were forbidden to enter any trade but banking, and then blamed for being interested only in money.-- in the 19th century, Jews were accused of a secret conspiracy to rule the world.-- in the 20th century, Jews were accused of starting wars in order to profit from making loans to both sides.-- in the 21st century, Jews were accused of causing 9/11.-- Jews are still accused of atheism, because they deny the Christian trinity and the deity of Jesus.
Well, in medieval times, if you were left handed, they considered you a devil.
1. The accused were not the ones who went mad. The supposedly bewitched accusers went mad. 2. There is no concrete proof there was any poison, but one theory suggests Ergotism, poisoning from ingesting ergot fungus.
He's accused by poisoning the husband of his sister.
The Jews were the ones who got blamed for outbreaks of diseases. People accused them of poisoning the wells. Which is not true.
Jewish people often were blamed for horible causes in the Medieval times
In some places they were accused of causing the Black Death (by poisoning wells).
The question does not specify when, so here are a few examples:-- in Roman times, Jews were accused of being atheists, because they did not believe in the Roman gods.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of poisoning wells and causing the plague.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of kidnapping Christian children and murdering them to get their blood because that was a necessary ingredient in Passover matzah. This is known as the blood libel.-- in medieval times, Jews were accused of murdering Christ, the crime of deicide.-- in medieval times, Jews were forbidden to enter any trade but banking, and then blamed for being interested only in money.-- in the 19th century, Jews were accused of a secret conspiracy to rule the world.-- in the 20th century, Jews were accused of starting wars in order to profit from making loans to both sides.-- in the 21st century, Jews were accused of causing 9/11.-- Jews are still accused of atheism, because they deny the Christian trinity and the deity of Jesus.
They were accused of poisoning the wells, despite the fact that they drank from the same wells.
They had falsely accused the Jews of poisoning the wells.
He was a czar of Russia who struggled with nobles called boyars because boyars wanted to control him. When his wife died, he accused boyers of poisoning her. He used secret police to hunt and kill boyars.
Medieval witches were not accused of much. Witches were accused of all sorts of mischief, but that was during the Renaissance, not in medieval times. In medieval times, there were laws against witchcraft in some places, but the laws of the Carolingian Empire and the Kingdom of the Lombards both made it clear that belief in witchcraft was unacceptably superstitious and so prosecuting people as witches was illegal. And under the laws of King Athelstan, in Anglo Saxon England, it was a capital crime to execute a person for witchcraft. There is a link below to an article on witch hunts.
Well, in medieval times, if you were left handed, they considered you a devil.
Jose Rizal's mother was imprisoned on the basis of false charges. She was accused of being an accomplice in the poisoning of a woman.
Joseph McCarthy accused Arthur Miller of being a communist, so the feelings that he harbored toward McCarthy were unpleasant, to say the least. His play "After the Fall" seems to be modeled on his feelings.