"The Childermass", after a traditional name for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, is the opening novel of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy "The Human Age".In the novel "The Fall" ("La Chute") by Albert Camus, the incident is argued by the main character to be the reason why Jesus chose to let himself be crucified—as he escaped the punishment intended for him while many others died, he felt responsible and died in guilt.