Ragman, whose real name was Rory Regan, wore a set of tattered bandages that looked unremarkable but were actually a sacred artifact of Judaism.
"The Gospel came from the Jews, yet the Jews cast it aside."
That summed up the relationship between the Jews and God. The Jews were descendants of the House of Judah—the people who had Christ killed.
Originally, there had been no term "Jews." In ancient times, they were called "Judah." When Babylon destroyed the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah, many descendants of Judah were taken away as slaves.
But the Babylonians could not pronounce the word properly. Over time, it became the term Jew.
When the Kingdom of Judah was under siege by Babylon, the descendants of Judah within the city prayed to God, hoping He would forgive their ancestors' sins and protect them once more.
God forgave them and bestowed these bandages upon them. A descendant of Judah could wrap them around himself and, so long as he swore to spend his life begging and scavenging, eating only food others had discarded and never living beneath a roof, he would gain the supernatural power granted by God.
The descendants of Judah agreed, and thus the first Ragman was born. He successfully repelled one Babylonian assault. Any enemy he attacked would have their soul sucked directly into the bandages, becoming a new scrap of cloth.
Unfortunately, after their brief victory, their hero began celebrating with abandon, eating and drinking at the feast and breaking his oath.
So when Babylon attacked again the next day, the Ragman suit failed. The descendants of Judah across the nation were either killed or captured, becoming the Jews from then on and beginning their wandering lives.
Still, Ragman's Bandages were sacred artifacts after all. They were not damaged