Sources from Episode 128

  1. “Ancient Fortune-Telling Shrines Unearthed in Armenia,” NBC News, February 2015, https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/ancient-fortune-telling-shrines-unearthed-armenia-n309691.

  2. Robert P. Brittain, “Cruentation: In Legal Medicine and in Literature,” Medical History 9, n. 1 (1965), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033446/pdf/medhist00156-0094.pdf.

  3. Barbara Tedlock, “Divination as a Way of Knowing: Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation,” Folklore 112 (2001): 189-97.

  4. Owen Davies, Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Springer, 2017).

  5. Dawson, L, Lander Johnson, B (ed.) & Decamp, E (ed.) 2018, “In Every Wound there is a Bloody Tongue”: Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology, In Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700.

  6. James Emmitt, Life and Reminiscences of Hon. James Emmitt: As Revised by Himself (Chillocothe: Peerless Printing, 1888).

  7. P. J. Heather, “Divination,” Folklore 65, n. 1 (1954): 10-29.

  8. Barbara Kalfs, “Pike Village was Scene of Bizarre ‘Trial by Blood,’” Chillicothe Gazette, https://www.newspapers.com/image/292865719/?terms=Louis%2Bsartain.

  9. Steven P. Marrone, “Magic and the Physical World in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism,” Early Science and Medicine 14, n. ⅓ (2009), 158-85.

  10. “The Ordeal of the Bleeding Corpse,” Strange Remains, https://strangeremains.com/2015/07/26/the-ordeal-of-the-bleeding-corpse.

  11. Andrew Pourciaux, “Trial by Ordeal: Submitting the Accused to Combat or Burning or Boiling Saved the need for Trials, Witnesses, or Evidence,” Vintage News, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/05/25/trial-by-ordeal.

  12. Arallyn Primm, “A History of ‘Trial by Ordeal,’” Mental Floss, http://mentalfloss.com/article/50161/history-trial-ordeal.

  13. Mitchel P. Roth, Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System, (Cengage Learning, 2010).

  14. George Lillie Craik, English Causes Célèbres, Or, Reports of Remarkable Trials, Volume 1 (Charles Knight & Company, 1840), pp. 269-296.