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Ordeal

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  • The cold-water ordeal: a man is tortured by being tied with rope and lowered into cold water. Etching.

Works from the collections

4 works

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    The Ordeal of the Wayward Woman (Sotah) : Miracle or Natural Phenomenon / Fred Rosner.

    Fred Rosner | Date: 1984
    • Books

    The ordeal of the wayward woman (Sotah) : miracle or natural phenomenon / Fred Rosner.

    Fred Rosner | Date: 1984
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    The cold-water ordeal: a man is tortured by being tied with rope and lowered into cold water. Etching.

    | Reference: 43313i
    • Books
    • Online

    An account, historical and physiological, of the Madagascar ordeal poison, the Tanghinia Venenifera / by Andrew Davidson.

    Andrew Davidson | Date: [©1874?]

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