Ordeal by water applied by druids

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Ordeal by water applied by druids.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Tests of guilt or innocence. · Ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H222.0.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Ordeal by water. Guilt or innocence shown by ability to swim.

Filed beside it

Legitimacy of children tested by dipping them in river Ordeal by holy water. If simpleton closes his eyes to holy water he is possessed; if he laughs he is merely an idiot Guilt or innocence shown by effect of enchanted water Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into water

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