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Submitted By: Cherly Moana F. Tubio

Submitted To: Ms. Robelyn Padios
DIFFERENT KINDS
OF ORDEAL
 ORDEAL BY FIRE

Ordeal by fire was one form of torture. The ordeal of fire typically required that the accused walk

a certain distance, usually 9 feet (2.7 metres) or a certain number of paces, usually three, over

red-hot plowshares or holding a red-hot iron

 ORDEAL BY COLD WATER

In this version of the ordeal, the accused would be bound hand and foot by a length of rope and

thrown into a body of water which was thought to be pure and able to reject any evil. He was

usually thrown into a pit that had been dug out and filled with water that had been blessed by a

priest. If the accused floated to the surface, that meant the water had rejected him and he was

guilty. If he was innocent, he would sink because the water had accepted him.

In a trial by cold water, the accused would be tied, thrown into a river, and found innocent if she
sank, guilty if she floated.
 ORDEAL BY HOT WATER
The ordeal of hot water required the accused to dip their hand into a kettle or pot of boiling water

(sometimes oil or lead was used instead) and retrieve a stone. Assessment of the injury was

similar to that for the fire ordeal.

An ordeal (as of plunging a bare arm into boiling water) in which water is the testing agent and

in which innocence or guilt is held to be proved (as by the condition of the arm)
 ORDEAL BY TURF

An Icelandic ordeal tradition involves the accused walking under a piece of turf. If the turf falls

on the accused’s head, the accused person is pronounced guilty.

 ORDEAL BY COMBAT
When two people were in dispute, the way to settle who was guilty and who was not was trial by

combat. The two would engage in a duel. The winner was believed to be innocent because he did

not win by his own strength but by divine intervention. God sided with the righteous person.
 ORDEAL BY HOST

If a priest was accused of a crime during medieval times, he could prove his innocence by going

up to the altar and praying out loud that God would choke him. He would then take a piece of the

host, also known as altar bread, and swallow it.[1] If he could do it without any signs of

discomfort or difficulty, he was believed to be innocent.

 ORDEAL BY CROSS

Trial by this ordeal was created to replace ordeal by combat. In this method, both the accuser and

the accused would come together in church and stand before the cross. They would hold out their

arms in the form of a cross for as long as possible. The party who lowered his arms first was

defeated. The other party won the trial

 ORDEAL BY BLOOD

During this trial, the corpse of the victim was placed on top of a small platform. Then each of the

suspected murderers would touch the body. It was believed that when the true murderer touched

the body of his victim, the wound would start bleeding fresh blood. If the wound did not bleed

when touched, that suspect would be declared innocent.

This form of ordeal was meant to ascertain the guilt or innocence of a person accused of murder.

The suspect would be taken to the exposed body of his alleged victim. The accused placed his

hand on the mortal wound, then swore an oath to his own innocence. If the corpse bled, the

accused was guilty; if it did not bleed, he was innocent. The bleeding ordeal was predicated on

the assumption that the soul of the deceased continued to reside inside the body and wished to

revenge the loss of its body against the killer.

 ORDEAL BY SNAKE

This type of trial by ordeal was usually used when the defendant was accused of making a false

accusation about another person or lying to get another person punished. The crime was

equivalent to perjury.

During the trial, a cobra was placed inside a clay pot along with a ring. The accused would try to

retrieve the ring from beneath the snake without getting bitten. If he was able to do so, he was

declared innocent.
 TRIAL BY ORDEAL BEAN

In some West African tribes, to identify whether a woman was a witch or possessed by an evil

spirit, they would have her swallow a calabar bean (aka an ordeal bean), which is an extremely

poisonous seed. They believed that God would perform a miracle and allow the accused to live

by vomiting up the seed if she was innocent.

 ORDEAL BY INGESTION

Franconian law prescribed that an accused was to be given dry bread and cheese blessed by a

priest. If the accused choked on the food, they were considered guilty. This was transformed into

the ordeal of the Eucharist (trial by sacrament) mentioned by Regino of Prüm ca. 900:AD; the

accused was to take the oath of innocence. It was believed that if the oath had been false, the

person would die within the same year.

 ORDEAL BY BOILING OIL

Trial by boiling oil has been practiced in villages in certain parts of West Africa, such as Togo.

[9] There are two primary versions of this trial. In one, the accused parties are ordered to retrieve

an item from a container of boiling oil, with those who refuse the task being found guilty.[10] In

the other, both the accused and the accuser have to retrieve an item from boiling oil, with the

person or persons whose hand remains unscathed being declared innocent.

 ORDEAL BY RICE CHEWING

In the ordeal of rice chewing, the suspect was made to chew on a handful of dry rice while being

questioned and then told to spit it out after a certain amount of time. The rice was then examined.

If the rice came out easy enough and was moist, the suspect was judged innocent.
 DONKEY'S TAIL ORDEAL
Psychological theory, the donkey placed in one room alone and observed it, and if the donkey

cried is a judged of guilty of crimes, because deep in side and conscience he is guilty
 TRIAL BY TORTURE

The accused was put into a severe physical test

 ORDEAL OF THE TIGER
Accuser and accused were placed together in the same and a tiger set loose upon them. If both

were spared, further elimination followed. Practical in Siam

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