Helen Duncan, the war “witch”: the case of HMS Barham
When we talk about “witch-hunting”, the memory and the collective imagination run to an ancient past made of tortures, burning
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The Hot Water Ordeal
Ordeals – ‘the judgments of God’ – are usually related to the Inquisition and to the tortures imposed to those
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The cold water ordeal – water cure
The ordeals were physical tests, in the past, which those accused of various crimes, mostly witchcraft and adultery, had to
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