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	Trial by ordeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One famous instance of the ordeal of ploughshares concerned Emma of Normandy, accused of adultery with the Bishop of Winchester in the mid-eleventh century.
		Priestly cooperation in trials by fire and water was forbidden by Pope Innocent IV at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.
		The ordeal of water would, for example, revive with a vengeance during the witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and demonologists would develop inventive new theories about how it worked.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trial_by_ordeal (962 words)

	Oath and Ordeal Signs - I
		Varieties of trial by ordeal ranged all the way from the oath of the individual sworn under sanctions to be executed by the oath deities to international wars in settlement of covenant controversy, the disposition of the conflict being again the decision of the oath gods invoked in the treaties.
		Synonymous with the motif of the ordeal by water is that of ordeal by combat with sea-monsters.
		Jesusâ passage through the water ordeal with the others who were baptized in the Jordan was also one in meaning with the Lordâs presence with Israel in the theophany pillar during the passage through the Red Sea, and in the ark of the covenant during their crossing of the Jordan.
	www.salvationhistory.com /library/liturgy/theology/OathOrdeal.cfm (7654 words)

	Oath and Ordeal Signs - II
		But those waters may be precisely the same and obvious sense be the means of condemnation-destruction or of justification-salvation, if they are seen to be the waters of a judicial ordeal with its potential of dual divine verdicts.
		Thoroughly congenial to the ordeal interpretation of the baptismal symbolism is the New Testamentâs exposition of baptism as a participation with Christ in the judgment ordeal of his death, burial, and resurrection.
		Graphic confirmation of the ordeal significance of baptism is thus found in the Pauline integration of baptism with the messianic death-burial-resurrection schema, especially where Paul expounds the latter as both a circumcision and a judicial ordeal by combat.
	www.salvationhistory.com /library/liturgy/theology/OathOrdeal2.cfm (8197 words)

	Christ Reformed Church: The Sacraments, Lecture 3B - The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism (Continued) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		John's baptism in the Jordan is a water ordeal, since as he baptized in the waters of the Jordan, the people of God will leave the wilderness of Israel's apostasy and enter into the eternal rest long promised in the messiah, who had now come.
		In ancient covenant procedure...such an oath of allegiance was accompanied by rites symbolizing the ordeal sanctions of the covenant.
		Thus to enter the waters of baptism, is to be united to Christ in his ordeal-curse upon the cross and in the grave.
	www.christreformed.org /resources/sermons_lectures/00000061.shtml?main (9581 words)

	Legal Definition of Ordeal
		ORDEAL - An obsolete common law practice, discouraged by the Church, which submitted the accused, or the accuser, or both, to the Judgement of God, usually with fire or water.
		The trial by ordeal was either by fire or by water.
		In cold water, the parties suspected were adjudged innocent if their bodies were not borne up by the water contrary to the course of nature; and if, after putting their bare arms or legs into scalding water they came out unhurt they were taken to be innocent of the crime.
	www.lectlaw.com /def2/o021.htm (233 words)

	Public use, just acknowledge source and translator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ordeals by cold water and hot water or iron, from several manuscripts dating from the tenth to thirteenth century (ed.
		Then after the judgment let them take in a refection of blessed water, and from this moment until the examination of the judgment's result it is good to mix all their food and drink with salt and blessed water.
		And let the boiling water be quickly taken off from above the fire, and the judge let hang the stone hang, tied to such and such a length [of rope] under the water according to the usual custom.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/history/Faculty/buc/ORDEAL-C.htm (2808 words)

	Oath And Ordeal Signs, Part 1
		In the Jordan ordeal, the dispossession of the condemned by the acquitted was prominent.
		Hence the military engagement occasioned by the violation of the treaty was a trial by ordeal, a judgment of the oath deities.
		Singularly apposite is the anchoring of God’s redemptive acts of subduing and dividing the ordeal waves in his creation acts of dividing and bounding the chaos waters in order that the dry land, inheritance of man, might appear.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Baptism/KlineMeredithOathOrdealPart1.htm (8396 words)

	Germanic Law
		Concerning the ordeal, we enjoin in the name of God and by the command of the archbishop and of all our bishops that no one enter the church after the fire has been brought in with which the ordeal is to be heated except the priest and him who is to undergo judgment.
		And when the ordeal is ready, let two men from each side go in and certify that it is as hot as we have directed it to be.
		And let the accused drink of the holy water and then let the hand with which he is about to carry the iron be sprinkled, and so let him go [to the ordeal].
	www.thenagain.info /Classes/Sources/GermanicLaw.html (1092 words)

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		The accused must go to the ordeal himself, and the accuser shall choose either ordeal by water or ordeal by iron, whichever he may prefer.
		And when the [water for the] ordeal is ready, two men from each party shall go in, and they shall agree that it is as hot as we have ordered.
		Then an equal number of men from both parties shall go in and stand along the church on each side of the ordeal, and all of them shall be fasting and shall have held themselves from their wives during the previous night.
	www.constitution.org /sech/sech_008.txt (404 words)

	Trial By Ordeal
		Ordeal was by means of hot iron, cold water, or battle, and was a strict ritual administered by the Church.
		She speculates that ordeal was often used by the Church as a way of providing mercy in harsh times.
		Some theologians thought it wrong for anyone to demand a service of God, as those undergoing ordeal did in demanding that God be their judge.) The jury system had always been around, and in 1215 ordeal by hot iron or cold water was forbidden by the Pope and judgement by one's peers became the norm.
	members.shaw.ca /jobev/ordeal.html (1174 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Why does water make the Wicked Witch of the West melt?
		This doesn't tell us why water is so potent against the Witch, but it set the stage, and lets us know the Witch is aware of water's power over her.
		A commonly prescribed trial for an accused witch was the ordeal by water: the suspect was tied up and tossed into a river.
		Water is associated with baptism, and thus the water of the river rejects the witch as satanic.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mwickedwitch.html (1342 words)

	Ordeal By Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In this type of ordeal, the water was symbolic of the flood of the Old Testament, washing sin from the face of the earth, allowing only the righteous minority to survive.
		As in the ordeal by fire, a three-day religious rite was held beforehand.
		In this, the accused was tied at feet and hands and was lowered into cold water by a rope.
	www.shanmonster.com /witch/torture/water.html (193 words)

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		Punishment, Torture, and Ordeal Punishment, Torture, and Ordeal He must not be too quick to subject a witch to examination, but must pay attention to certain signs which will follow.
		And he must not be too quick for this reason: unless God, through a holy Angel, compels the devil to withold his help from the witch, she will be so insensible to the pains of torture that she will sooner be torn limb from limb than confess any of the truth.
		(Farrington 22) Ordeal By Water In this type of ordeal, the water was symbolic of the flood of the Old Testament, washing sin from the face of the earth, allowing only the righteous minority to survive.
	www.ladyoftheearth.com /witch/punishment.txt (2853 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Trial by media is a serviceable variant of the medieval ordeal
		Ordeal by water involved being dropped in a flooded pit on a rope.
		Ordeal was outlawed by Innocent III at the fourth Lateran Council in 1215.
		Torture, unlike ordeal, was administered by the prosecution.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,,1732806,00.html (1161 words)

	Hos-McGrane > Ancient History > The Vikings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ordeal by cold water: Your hands and feet are tied together, a rope is placed around your waist and it is then attached to pulley which plunges you into the water.
		Ordeal by hot water: You must put your hand into a boiling pot of water to retrieve a pebble a the bottom of it.
		Ordeal by hot metal: You have to hold a hot iron rod that has been placed in a fire for a while, with the metal still in your clasp, you must walk a set distance.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/viking/eg_viking_9.html (510 words)

	Lothair II of Lotharingia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although quarrels and reconciliations between the three kings followed each other in quick succession, in general it may be said that Louis favoured the divorce, and Charles opposed it, while neither lost sight of the fact that Lothair had no sons to inherit his lands.
		Lothair, whose desire for the divorce was prompted by his affection for a certain Waldrada, put away Teutberga, but Hucbert took up arms on her behalf, and after she had submitted successfully to the ordeal of water, Lothair was compelled to restore her in 858.
		Still pursuing his purpose, he won the support of his brother, Emperor Louis II, by a cession of lands and obtained the consent of the local clergy to the divorce and to his marriage with Waldrada, which took place in 862.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lothair_II (597 words)

	Oath And Ordeal Signs, Second Article
		The ordeal elements of the waters and sword are included in the picture as subordinate details (vv.
		The earth is thereby brought into its final ordeal which has a dual issue in the destruction of the harlot city, Babylon, and the exaltation of the bride city, Jerusalem.
		Incidentally, since the theophany in Genesis 15 is essentially the ordeal fire-cloud, the remarkable picture presented there is that of the divine fire ordeal itself undergoing division in the covenantal knife ordeal.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Baptism/KlineMeredithOathOrdealPart2.htm (11206 words)

	Legal History: Massachusetts Lawyer Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The ordeal was the principal form of legal proof throughout England and Europe until it came under attack by the church and the pope in 1215.
		The ordeal by water consisted of throwing the accused in and observing whether he sank or floated.
		Modern scholars have suggested that the reason the ordeal functioned is because the interpretation of the data was subjective and open to consensus.
	www.lawyerviews.com /lawsite/history.html (1650 words)

	CLASSIC DIVING BOOKS - Peter Keeble.
		There are basically two aspects of Ordeal by Water, set predominantly during the Second World War in the Middle East.
		On the one hand we have the remarkable account of what it is like to dive in standard dress, and on the other, we have a superb description of the mechanics of marine salvage.
		Ordeal by Water is a classic by way of its prose.
	classicdivebooks.customer.netspace.net.au /oeclassics-a-keeble.htm (1186 words)

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		This was a survival of the ancient ordeal by water which existed in Europe before the advent of Christianity, and was based on pagan notions concerning the sacred character of water.
		"The safeguards which surrounded the legal water ordeal had largely disappeared by the seventeenth century, and swimming a witch was often as much a popular pastime as a genuine attempt to discover the crime of sorcery.
		The unhappy suspect was hustled to the waterside, stripped to her shift, and thrown in with her hands and feet bound crosswise, the right hand to the left foot and vice versa.
	www.csicop.org /superstition/witches.html (1625 words)

	The Tribune - Windows - Roots
		Ordeal of fire and ordeal of water were methods of legal trial in the English society of the Middle Ages.
		In criminal cases, in the ordeal of fire, the accused would either have to grasp a red-hot iron bar in the hand or walk barefoot and blindfolded between red-hot iron ploughshares.
		In the ordeal of water, the accused had to plunge his hand into a tub full of boiling water and emerge unscathed to be proved not guilty.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010505/windows/roots.htm (585 words)

	WCAV \| Broken Albemarle County Water Main Fixed
		A water main break in Albemarle County has been fixed after drivers saw a soggy start to the work week.
		A broken water main was the reason for a watery scene along Route 29 near Woodbrook Drive Monday.
		Officials add that throughout the whole ordeal, the water in homes and businesses affected was still safe to drink.
	www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv /news/headlines/2171487.html (343 words)

	Monarchical Administration & Legal System - Myanmar (Burma) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ordeal by Lead: Both had to dip their fingers into hot liquid lead just about a second.
		Ordeal by Fire: Both had to hold mouthful of water in their mouths.
		If both can hold until the 2 candles burns out, the amount of water in their mouths had to be measured.
	www.myanmars.net /NEWVER/history/legal.htm (310 words)

	English Coroner System Part 5: Trial by Ordeal
		These were the various "ordeals," a semi-magical method of determining guilt or innocence which goes right back to pre-historic times through many cultures prior to the coming of the Anglo-Saxons.
		For example, guilt could be tested by the ordeal of fire, where the suspect had to carry a bar of red-hot iron in his hands while he walked nine marked paces.
		Ordeal by combat and battle was also witnessed and recorded by the Coroner.
	www.britannia.com /history/articles/coroner5.html (1383 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Ordeal of Boiling Water
		Then he shall designate a spot in the vestibule where the fire is to be made for the water, and shall first sprinkle the place with holy water, and shall also sprinkle the kettle when it is ready to be hung and the water in it, to guard against the illusions of the devil.
		After the celebration let the priest go with the people to the place of the ordeal, the Gospel in his left hand, the cross, censer and relics of the saints being carried ahead, and let him chant seven penitential psalms with a litany.
		Up to the time of the decision regarding the ordeal [a period of three days was allowed to elapse before the hand was examined] it is good thing to mix salt and holy water with all his food and drink
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/water-ordeal.html (783 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Opinion - Ordeal by campaign 02/25/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In ancient times, says the law journal writer, both accused and accuser would be asked to undergo an "Ordeal" on the premise that God would protect the innocent and reveal the guilty.
		The accuser maintained the fire under a caldron of water from the day of the accusation to the day of the trial, which took place within 14 days.
		If the boiling water ordeal seems a bit harsh, consider some of the other alternatives available to 15th and 16th century church authorities that generally presided over the courts.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/022500/OPEDrose.shtml (569 words)

	Northvegr - Miscellaneous Law Texts
		Then the priest shall sprinkle holy water above the iron and shall say: "The blessing of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost descend upon this iron for the discerning of the right judgment of God." And straightway the accused shall carry the iron to a distance of nine feet.
		Look that ye be not deprived of the heritage of such great blessing and of participation in it by implicating yourselves in the crime of another, for it is written, not only are they worthy of death who do these things, but they that have pleasure in them that do them.
		Prayer over the boiling water: O God, just judge, firm and patient, who art the Author of peace, and judgest truly, determine what is right, O Lord, and make known Thy righteous judgment.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/law_misc/003.php (1120 words)

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