TRADITIONS ABOUT JUDAS ISCARIOT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3149, 1 August 1881, Page 4

TRADITIONS ABOUT JUDAS ISCARIOT.

A correspondent; of Note 3 and Queries gives fche following account of Judas Iscariofc, summarised from a chap-bock published in Birmingham aboufc 1700 : — There lived at Joppa a rich Jew, Maccabeus, and his wife Bernice, who dreamed that her child when horn should betray his Lord. They resolve to kill the child, but, deterred by his beauty, pufc him into a box and throw him into the river. The child is saved by fcho king of the island, Iscariofc, who brings the boy up with his own son. Judas kills the son, flies, steals apples, kills his own father, and marries his own mother, to whom he is known by a mark. He repents, reforms, joins Jesus Christ, betrays him, and hangs himself. We are also gravely told that Pontius Pilate drowned himself in a lake at Sienna, in Italy, which still bears his name ; that every year he appears on the banks in the judicial habit. wherein he judged our Saviour, but whosoever, man or women, sees this apparition, within thafc year he surely dies. And of such a wonderful nature is the water of the lake that whatever is thrown into it swells so that the water overflows its bounds anc. drowns a great part of the country, to tho destruction of man and beast.