diff --git a/src/index.rs b/src/index.rs
index 02f3142ce..28b6535c8 100644
--- a/src/index.rs
+++ b/src/index.rs
@@ -305,7 +305,6 @@ impl Index {
         &self,
         query: &str,
         default_field_names: Option<Vec<String>>,
-        filters: Option<&PyDict>,
     ) -> PyResult<Query> {
         let mut default_fields = vec![];
         let schema = self.index.schema();
@@ -338,48 +337,6 @@ impl Index {
             tv::query::QueryParser::for_index(&self.index, default_fields);
         let query = parser.parse_query(query).map_err(to_pyerr)?;
 
-        if let Some(filters_dict) = filters {
-            let mut query_vec = Vec::new();
-            query_vec.push((tv::query::Occur::Must, query));
-            for key_value_any in filters_dict.items() {
-                if let Ok(key_value) = key_value_any.downcast::<PyTuple>() {
-                    if key_value.len() != 2 {
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    let key: String = key_value.get_item(0).extract()?;
-                    let field = schema.get_field(&key).ok_or_else(|| {
-                        exceptions::ValueError::py_err(format!(
-                            "Field `{}` is not defined in the schema.",
-                            key
-                        ))
-                    })?;
-
-                    if let Ok(value_list) =
-                        key_value.get_item(1).downcast::<PyList>()
-                    {
-                        for value_element in value_list {
-                            if let Ok(s) = value_element.extract::<String>() {
-                                let facet = tv::schema::Facet::from_text(&s);
-                                let term =
-                                    tv::schema::Term::from_facet(field, &facet);
-                                let term_query = tv::query::TermQuery::new(
-                                    term,
-                                    tv::schema::IndexRecordOption::Basic,
-                                );
-                                let query: Box<dyn tv::query::Query> =
-                                    Box::new(term_query);
-                                query_vec.push((tv::query::Occur::Must, query));
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            let boolean_query = tv::query::BooleanQuery::from(query_vec);
-            return Ok(Query {
-                inner: Box::new(boolean_query),
-            });
-        }
-
         Ok(Query { inner: query })
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/tantivy_test.py b/tests/tantivy_test.py
index 64aa2a296..154ea34f7 100644
--- a/tests/tantivy_test.py
+++ b/tests/tantivy_test.py
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ def test_and_query_parser_default_fields_undefined(self, ram_index):
 
     def test_and_query_parser_default_fields_facets(self, ram_index):
         index = ram_index
-        query = index.parse_query("old", default_field_names=["title", "body"], filters={"facet": ["/mytag"]})
+        query = index.parse_query("old +facet:/mytag", default_field_names=["title", "body"])
         # look for an intersection of documents
         searcher = index.searcher()
         result = searcher.search(query, 10)
         assert result.count == 1
 
-        query = index.parse_query("old", default_field_names=["title", "body"], filters={"facet": ["/wrongtag"]})
+        query = index.parse_query("old +facet:/wrong", default_field_names=["title", "body"])
         # look for an intersection of documents
         searcher = index.searcher()
         result = searcher.search(query, 10)