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Before fancy DNA finding skills, people relied on Trials by Ordeal to solve murders. This method of catching killers was gruesome and totally legit… right? Find out the truth behind the phenomena known as CRUENTATION.
Painting depicts a corpse bleeding in the presence of its accused murderer.
Cruentation or Trial by the Law of the Bier.
Image: “The Body of Evidence” by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Painting depicts a corpse bleeding in the presence of its accused murderer.
Cruentation or Trial by the Law of the Bier.
Image: ancient-origins.net
A funeral bier in St. Helen’s Church, Britain.
Copyright Richard Croft (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Episode Sources:
- RP Brittain Cruentation in Legal Medicine and in Literature (1965) doi:10.1017/s0025727300030179
- HC Lea (1892) Superstition and Force: Essays on The Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal of Torture
- Project Gutenberg Ebook of Daemonologie 2008. (King James 1597) gutenberg.org
- ML Ingram Bodies That Speak scholarsbank.uoregon.edu
- Scholarworks.gsu.edu.
- Emedicine.medscape.com
- Exploreforensics.co.uk
- Australian.museum
- Strangeremains.com
- Nationalgeographic.com
- Wikipedia
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