Wandering Jew myth

The Wandering Jew is a myth that spread in Christian Europe during the medieval period. The myth is that a Jew became cursed to live forever until the Second Coming after taunting Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion. The Legend goes back as early as around the year 400 in a statement by Roman Christian poet Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in his Apotheosis: “From place to place the homeless Jew wanders in ever-shifting exile, since the time when he was torn from the abode of his fathers and has been suffering the penalty for murder, and having stained his hands with the blood of Christ whom he denied, paying the price of sin.”