Fire Ordeal
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Saxon and old English law. Theordeal by fire or red-hot iron, which was performed either by taking up in the hand a piece of red-hot iron, of one, two, or three pounds weight, or by walking barefoot, and blindfolded over nine red-hot plowshares, laid lengthwise al unequal distances, 4 Bl. Comm. 843; Cowell.