ordeal of the morsel

An ordeal in which the person who was to make the proof was given a one-ounce piece of bread or cheese that a priest had solemnly charged to stick in the throat of the guilty.

• A person who choked was declared guilty; a person who did not was declared innocent.

— Also termed corsnaed; corsned; trial by corsnaed; judicial morsel; morsel of execration.


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