 Apparently the pamphlets of 1602 borrowed parts of the descriptions of the wanderer from reports (most notably by Balthasar Russow) about an itinerant preacher called Jürgen.In France, the Wandering Jew appeared in Simon Tyssot de Patot's " (1720).In England the Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in Matthew Lewis's Gothic novel "The Monk" (1796).