Ordeals. Guilt or innocence thus established

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Ordeals. Guilt or innocence thus established.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Tests of guilt or innocence. · Ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H220

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YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 11

Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EnglishChild V 490 "ordeal"
IcelandicBoberg
West IndiesFlowers 455.
general **Patetta Le Ordalie (1890). *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 994ff.
general Penzer VIII 196 n.
general Keith Encyc. Relig. Eth. s. v. "ordeal"
general Basset RTP XVII 397, 597, XIX 156ff., XXIII 182. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 317

Within the index

13 finer motifs beneath it

Ordeal by fire. Suspected person must pass through or jump over fire to determine guilt or innocence Ordeal by water. Guilt or innocence shown by ability to swim Ordeal by poison Ordeal by crocodiles (snakes). Judgment depends on whether person is devoured or rejected by crocodiles Ordeal by rope-walking Ordeal by balance. Defendant is weighed twice. He must be lighter second time Ordeal: carrying murdered man's blood. Must not spill it Ordeal by creeping under a sod partially detached from the earth without its falling down Ordeal by bread and cheese. Declaration: if I am not innocent may I choke on bread and cheese Ordeal: taking stone out of bucket. Color indicates guilt or innocence Scales test: weighing witch against Bible Ordeal: cock under pot crows when guilty person touches pot Ordeal by exposure. (Cf. S141, S331.)

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