Dear Radharao, Very interesting. Would you know whether or not this ritual was brought on from the time of the Inquisition. Or originated perhaps by an over zealous prelate/ a zealot. Is Judeo/v also also employed to disambiguate (at least in the past) to suggest something else.
: ) And yet Goan daughters are named Salome. Have not come yet across a Herodias. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto > Message: 9 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:03:32 +0530 > From: radharao gracias <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd > June every year > > > "Kill the Jew" is part of the historical anti Jewish tirade of > Christianity. The practice was observed in Goa on 23rd of June, i.e. on the > eve of the Feast of St.John the Baptist. The date is significant and > relates to the imprisonment and beheading of St.John the Baptist by King > Herod of the Jews. "Kill the Jew" is reprisal for the slaying of St.John > the Baptist ! >
