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|Description={{en|1=Water-ordeal. Miniature from the Lucerne chronicle of 1513.}}
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|Description={{en|1=Miniature from the Lucerne chronicle of 1513, fol 80v.
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|Source=http://www.inquisition.pp.ru/eng/ispitan.htm
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in spite of the image title, this is not a "water ordeal" but simply an instance of corporeal punishment, called ''schwemmen''.

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The boy Hans Hegenheim was convicted for theft and as punishment was thrown into the Reuss River bound with a rope, and pulled behind a boat for a fixed distance (from Peterskapelle to Reusbrücke). He survived, and was considered to have atoned for his crime, and went on to live a long life.

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|Source=http://www.inquisition.pp.ru/eng/ispitan.htm (dead link)

|Author=Diebold Schilling the Younger

|Author=Diebold Schilling the Younger

|Date=1513.

|Date=1513.

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