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  1. In medieval times, a method of testing guilt
  2. of an accused person based on the belief in
  3. heaven's protection of the innocent. Examples
  4. of such ordeals are walking barefoot over
  5. heated iron, dipping the hand into boiling
  6. water, and swallowing consecrated bread
  7. (causing the guilty to choke).
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