Here’s an article claiming that medieval trial by ordeal actually worked to sort out the guilty from the innocent at least as well as modern legal systems.
I’ve always wondered whether so-called trail by ordeal isn’t just a myth. Does anybody know if it was ever really practiced & how widely?
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