Show trial by ordeal in early days day trial by ordeal goes back to earliest days clays and in the book of numbers there Is a case recorded of a hebrew woman having been required to submit to a test among the hindus the ordeal has been practiced by flie by water by pulson or drinking water in which deities had beani been washed by chewing rice by hot oil by red hot iron and by drawing two images out of a jar livingstone described the practice us as being common among all negro races north ot of the Zam bosl the natives having the greatest faith in its efficacy and it has bag not always failed or the trepidation ot the criminal before the dreaded ordeal I 1 has frequently betrayed him |