An old jewish legend

At some point during the 14th century, two star crossed lover met: a Christian boy, and a Jewish girl named Susona. Just like Romeo and Juliet, this love was strictly forbidden and families on both sides disapproved. Thinking it to be children being young and foolish, neither side did much about it other than to admonish their children. However, things took a sinister turn when the enamoured youths wanted to get married. A Jew and a Christian marrying was simply not allowed. One of them would have to convert. Fearing the worst for their wayward daughter, Susona’s family resolved to murder her young lover. However, she got wind and warned him. This young man was a man of action, and concluded that he couldn’t be killed if he got to his would-be-murderers before they got to him. Under cover of darkness, he climbed up through Susona’s window and stealthily murdered her family before fleeing Santa Cruz to safety. By the next day, word had spread of what had happened and the Jewish community got together to decide what to do. The solution they came to was an ultimatum for Susona: if she would renounce her love for the man and her new Christian faith and revert to Judaism and apologise for the whole thing she would be off the hook, but if she would not, she would be killed. Susona was nothing if not stubborn. So lovestruck was she that she would sooner choose death over a life without her man. So be it. She was taken by the community and brutally murder. Her skull was placed on a shelf outside her window as a macabre reminder of what happens to those who would turn their back on their culture and religion.