I once read in a book how the accused had to walk on red-hot iron and drink molten lead, to prove whether they were innocent or not. Or else they put their legs into Spanish boots or strung them up on the ladder if they wouldn't confess. Or they burnt their hips with a fireman's torch like they did to St John of Nepomuk.
Noizbait irakurri nuen liburu batian kondenatuak burdina goritik ibili behar izaten zuela eta berun urtua edan, errugabia ote zen ikusteko.