One of the most moving and saddest of Christmas songs
is the Coventry Carol, the story of the Slaughter of the Innocents, which most of us learned in one Bible school or another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFDO02Y2aI This is the Kingston Trio's version, my favorite. In fact, this event probably never happened. As horrific as such a thing would be, and as bruited about as it would have been, not a single historian of the period speaks of it. Josephus, the best known scholar/historian of the time, and himself a Jew, never mentions such an event.... Sign in to see full entry.