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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 accused of heresy and...

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 overcome so they might...