[Sca-cooks] What's the right cheese for an interrogation?
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Wed Jul 3 20:25:56 PDT 2013
Not unthinkable. But bear in mind too that this had a religious component -
presumably part of the test was Divine judgment revealing a liar.
Apparently this test is pretty well-known in the history of lie detectors.
"A variation of this test was used during the Inquisition. The suspect had
to swallow a "trial slice"
of bread and cheese; if it stuck in the suspect's palate or throat "
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/39/7/766/
"A piece of barley bread and a piece of cheese were laid upon the altar,
and the accused priest, in his full canonicals, and surrounded by all the
pompous adjuncts of Roman ceremony, pronounced certain conjurations, and
prayed with great fervency for several minutes. The burden of the prayer was,
that if he were guilty of the crime laid to his charge, God would send his
angel Gabriel to stop his throat, and he might not be able to swallow the b
read and cheese. There is no instance upon record of a priest having been
choked in this manner.
"An ordeal very like this is still practiced in India. Consecrated rice is
the article chosen, instead of bread and cheese. Instances are not rare in
which, through the force of imagination, guilty persons are not able to
swallow a single grain."
A history of lie detection
PV Trovillo - Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1939 -
JSTOR
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=284
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Jim Chevallier
Comparing early and late medieval food in France
http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html
In a message dated 7/3/2013 5:48:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jarukcomp at yahoo.com writes:
I suspect its use as an ordeal may be connected to the difficulty of
producing saliva if you are terrified.
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