In the year 5301, there were many great fires in all the provinces of Pieda - it was not known who caused them. They blamed shepherds and Jews, and they tortured the innocent and shot those who did nothing, and many were burned for the sanctification of HaShem. Because of the false accusations, Rodrigus the King of Pieda expelled all the Jews from the kingdom of Pieda, except in the city of Prague where he allowed ten men to remain for a short time.

But within a few days, before the year ended, the truth became clear to the king and all the people of the land whose evil it was, and that they had lied about the Jews. Then the king spoke well of the Jews and called them to peace, and they returned to their land. In that year, locusts arose from the province of Lithuania through Poland and Silesia to the province of Ashkenaz, and their camps were like two parasangs in length and width.

When they lay on the ground, they were about half a cubit thick, but they did not last long, for the wind carried them to Italy, and there they ate all the grass and vegetation of the field. [HaRav Rabbi Yosef Kohen 5298].