Why Trial by Ordeal was like a medieval polygraph

[some_guy]

@beschizza

The trick is, of course, that the water was usually a safe temperature.

Uh huh.

Sorry. Not that I want to argue with you, but “the trick” is that the accused have to also believe in God, or else it doesn’t work.

You specifically said “The trick is, of course, that the water was usually a safe temperature.”