- The
tangena ordeal was a form of
trial by
ordeal practiced in
Madagascar to
determine the
guilt or
innocence of an
accused party. The
trial utilized seeds...
- warfare, **** slavery, disease,
difficult forced labor and the
practice of
tangena (a
harsh trial by
ordeal using a
poisonous nut from the
Cerbera manghas...
-
Cerbera manghas (formerly
Cerbera tanghin),
commonly known as the sea mango,
tangena or
bintaro is a
small evergreen coastal tree
growing up to 12
metres (39 ft)...
- theft, Christianity, and
especially witchcraft, for
which the
ordeal of
tangena (Cerbera manghas) was
routinely obligatory. In the 1820s,
ingestion of...
- of
Tamil Nadu;
dabur (ডাবুর) in Bengali; famentana, kisopo,
samanta or
tangena in Madagascar; and pong-pong, buta-buta,
bintaro or nyan in
Southeast Asia...
-
especially witchcraft, for
which the
ordeal of
tangena was
routinely obligatory.
Between 1828 and 1861, the
tangena ordeal caused about 3,000
deaths annually...
- however, were
punished in
other ways: many were
required to
undergo the
tangena ordeal,
while others were
condemned to hard
labor or the
confiscation of...
-
ordeal of
tangena, in
which the
guilt or
innocence of an
accused person was
determined based on the
outcome of
consuming the
poison of the
tangena nut, and...
-
Malagasy people as a
poison consumed in
ordeal trials, even
before the
tangena fruit was used. This lent the
flower one of its
names vonenina, from Malagasy:...
-
traditional form of justice, the
trial by ordeal:
rather than
administering tangena poison to an
accused person's
rooster to
determine their innocence by the...
