Hannah Frey

It's brilliantly flawless.

Because if you were saved, it's because the devil saved you.

Sure, sure.

But in different circumstances, it's God saving you because you're innocent.

So here's the thing.

Lucy goosey is the key word.

There were trials by fire, trials by water, trials by ingestion.

If you're truly innocent, then we'll give you this poison and God will intervene.

Now, believe it or not, that wasn't really popular.

OK, I am surprised.

To be fair, though.

With the criminals or the public at large?

Well, with anyone.

As I researched this, I found that actually a lot of modern scholars have said, to be clear,

Like it wasn't that bad of an idea because if you look at the records of people who were subjected to trials of ordeal, there's like a lot of people who were vindicated by it.

OK.

Like what really would happen.

is that someone who was guilty would just refuse to do it and they would settle and they would accept a punishment.

If someone really said, I will walk across the hot coals because surely God will save me and everyone believed that he would, then an innocent person would decide to do it?

And often there was a lot of leeway over how terrible the ordeal was.