Wonderful things were to be seen. Numbers of the Saracens were beheaded … Others were shot with arrows, or forced to jump from the towers; others were tortured for several days, then burned with flames. In the streets were seen piles of heads and hands and feet. It was a just a marvelous judgment of God …
eyewitness of the First Crusade (1096-1099)
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