[909] Fuero de Baeça, ap. Villadiego, Fuero Juzgo, fol. 317a.
[910] Du Cange, s. v. Ferrum candens.
[911] Laws of Ethelstan, iv. § 7.—Adjuratio ferri vel aquæ ferventis (Baluz. II. 656).—Fuero de Baeça (ubi sup.).
[912] For instance, see various forms of exorcism given by Baluze, II. 651-654. Also Dom Gerbert (Patrologiæ CXXXVIII. 1127); Goldast. Alamann. Antiquitat. T. II. p. 150 (Ed. Senckenberg).
[913] Petri Cantor. Verb. Abbreviat. cap. lxxviii. (Patrol. CCV. 233).
[914] Weber’s Hist. of Indian Literature, Mann & Zachariae’s Translation, p. 73.
[915] Travels of Hiouen Thsang (Wheeler, Hist. of India, III. 262).
[916] Institutes of Vishnu, XI.—Yajnavalkya II. 103-6 (Stenzler’s Translation, p. 61).
It is easy to understand the prescription of Vishnu that the fire ordeal is not to be administered to blacksmiths or to invalids, but not so easy that it was forbidden during summer and autumn (Ib. X. 25-6). Yajnavalkya, moreover, says that the ordeals of fire, water, and poison are for Sudras (II. 98).
[917] Ayeen Akbery, II. 497.—Patella, Le Ordalie, p. 106.