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Author: randomsurfer

May 31st 2011 at 3:00:10 PM

* ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': [[InsaneTrollLogic If a woman weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood and therefore is a witch.]]  [[BurnTheWitch So burn her.]]
:: Note though that you have to weigh her against a duck; sure, you ''could'' try to build a bridge out of her but that might result in a false-positive since you can also make bridges out of stone.
* ''Marauders of {{Gor}}'' takes place in FantasyCounterpartCulture to Vikings, and Trial by Hot Metal comes up briefly as they tour a fair.
-->We passed one fellow, whom we noted seized up two bars of red hot metal and ran some twenty feet, and then threw them from him.
-->"What is he doing?" I asked.
-->"He is proving that he has told the truth," said the [[CaptainColorbeard Forkbeard]].
* ''TheSimpsons'' "[[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror VIII]]": anyone suspected of being a witch is thrown off a cliff; if the witch is really a witch it will fly to safety on a [[FlyingBroomstick broom]], after which it's expected to fly back to be punished.