What is the fire attempt?
trial would be one of the experiments of suffering that existed in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. Other suffering included experiments with water, ingestion and cross. This is related to the court in the fight where the accused fights the plaintiff. In the courts of the fire, the accused carries out court proceedings without assistance. If he has witnessed the crime, prosecution and defense may call witness to testify. Of these, the judges and/or jurors are able to decide the accused. When the act lacked witnesses, they turned to God for help; If the accused was innocent, they believed that God would help them in some court proceedings.
The fire test did not include any naked flames. Instead, iron was heated. One method included the defendant holding a red hot iron rod while walking 9 feet (2.74 m). The second, more common, WPKUD method is the accused to go over the red-Horn iron Plowshares. The test of water often required flames to boil water barrels, oils or guidance so that the accused could rip the rock from the bottom of the pot.
If the accused managed to complete this task, he would be bandaged and got three days of grace. The judges believed in these things that God would hit the miracle called Innocent while they left the wine to Fester. After three days they would check the wounds for any signs of infection. If the wound was infected, the accused was considered guilty; If not, was found innocent.
The famous fire attempt includes Emma Normandy in England in the mid -11th century. Emma was Aethelred's wife and then Canate. She was also the mother of the then king, Edward of the Confessor. According to the accounts and legends that appeared around them, it spread twice, was accused of adultery with the bishop of Winchester.
In order to prove the bishop's innocence, she submitted to the court by fire. Edward consulted with his Norman priests and agreed and set that he would have to go through nine red Plowshares. On the day of fire courtu got through the court to ask the judges when the suffering occurs. Then they told her she had already passed, so she turned and saw Plowshares behind her.
Pope Innocent III banned priests in participation in any court by fire or other court proceedings during the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. As the medieval period worn, these tests became less common. Eventually they died.