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trials by fire and
water was
forbidden by Pope
Innocent III at the
Fourth Council of the
Lateran of 1215 and
replaced by compurgation.
Trials by ordeal became...
- In the
Hebrew Bible, the
ordeal of the
bitter water was a
Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a
priest in the
tabernacle to a wife
whose husband suspected...
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hours until he or she
revealed information or
death had occurred.
Ordeal by water began with the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. King James...
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ordeal by water; if he is
proven innocent, his
accuser must pay 3 shekels. (10) If a man
accused the wife of a man of adultery, and the
river ordeal proved...
- due season, has
released some
sufferers from the
further ordeal of the
water cure. As the
water is
administered officially, I
suppose that it is not murder...
-
subjected to
ordeal by water, and
tortured to
confess and name accomplices, who were then also arrested. Ten men and
women were
executed by burning for...
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known for his ****ociation with
justice and
judgment who
represented ordeal by water. A hymn to Utu
states that
Idlurugu cannot give
judgment without his...
- festering, the case was lost. In the
ordeal by water, the victim,
usually an
accused person, was cast
bound into
water: if he sunk he was innocent, if he...
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first time in 1599 or 1601. The
executioner Håkan put her
through the
ordeal by water together with two
other women,
whose names are unknown. She p****ed...
- re****tion, who was
accused by her
neighbours of
having a
familiar and of
having injured or
caused harm to
other people's
livestock by use of sorcery. About...
