Sixty-five per cent of those who undergo the ordeal between 7pm and 9pm succeed, versus 48 per cent who take it between 11am and 1pm.

This locomotive was deemed officially overweight, but nevertheless was allowed to undergo the ordeal.

As with judicial duels, and unlike most other ordeals, the accuser had to undergo the ordeal together with the accused.

So witnesses would have already undergone the ordeal of crossexamination needlessly.

He underwent the ordeal of boiling water as a way to prove his innocence.