If it's a serious crime like child rape, trial by prolonged painful or horrific experience can be supported.This will make the perpetrator feel the agony and trauma,the victim has been passing through and to repentant for his misdeeds.
no it was not
what is the disadcantages of trial by ordeal
The belief then during the Middle Ages was that he who has not done wrong will be protected by the gods and that by doing the trial by ordeal, the innocent ones would survive the ordeal as they will be protected by the gods.
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Trial by ordeal did not originate in the Middle Ages. It probably developed in prehistory, but certainly existed in the earliest historic periods. There is a link below.
an extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
Trial by ordeal is where you do trials to see if you were guilty or not and Trail by jury is where you have a group of people who decide or help give a second opinion to the judge with wether you were guilty or not.
Trial by jury involves a group of impartial individuals who decide the verdict based on evidence presented in court, while trial by ordeal relies on a physical test or ritual to determine guilt or innocence, often involving supernatural elements. Trial by jury is based on reasoned analysis and legal principles, while trial by ordeal is based on superstition and a belief in divine intervention.
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An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes., Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience., Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
The term trial by fire originated from the ancient judicial practice of trial by ordeal. An ordeal was something unpleasant or dangerous that an accused person was subjected to in order to prove innocence. Fire was one of the ordeals used at the time. Many of these trials led to death.
Just getting here was quite an ordeal today.