[1155] Marsil. Pract. Criminal. (ap. Binsfeld, de Confess. Maleficar. pp. 111-12).
[1156] Carena, loc. cit.
[1157] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 34.
[1158] Cujus rei rationem petunt e causis naturalibus et reddere conatur Petrus Apponensis; quæ qualescunque tandem hæ sint, constat evenisse sæpe, et magnis autoribus tradita exempla.—B. d’Agentré Comment, in Consuet. Britann. p. 145 (Ed. Antverp. 1644).
[1159] Carena, loc. cit.—Oelsner, op. cit. c. iv. § 2.
[1160] Carena, loc. cit. A similar dramatic exhibition by a corpse is recorded in a case occurring in Germany in 1607.—Oelsner, c. iii. § 5.
[1161] I owe this account to the kindness of L. S. Joynes, M.D., of Richmond, who informs me that he found it while examining the Accomac County records.
[1162] Annual Register for 1767, pp. 144-5.
[1163] Dunglison’s Human Physiology, 8th Edition, II. 657.
[1164] Phila. Bulletin, April 19, 1860.—N. Y. World, June 5, 1868.—Phila. North American, March 29, 1869.