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Categories: Types of trials, Articles with short description, Legal history, Early Modern witch hunts, Trial by ordeal

ordeal trial by ordeal Cold water ordeal Fire ordeal Hot-water ordeal

A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence WordNet 3.0

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Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. Wikipedia

A religious judicial practice to determine "the will of God" Wikipedia Disambiguation

A trial by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task Wikipedia Disambiguation

Ancient judicial practice to determine guilt through an unpleasant experience Wikidata

A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused. Wiktionary

Trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test. Wiktionary (translation)

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