Determining her motif, she determines the nature of her trial, an ordeal by battle.
To reflect pregnancy and childbirth, the simile would have to include an additional and more traumatic ordeal at the end of the nine months.
Even defendants who were ultimately acquitted had to pass through ordeals of legal intimidation that often left mental and financial scars.
Tamino awaits the last difficult trial, an ordeal that must be overcome.
From this perspective, ritual specialists who found judicial evidence in the suspect's body through ordeal or autopsy illustrated the monstrous, regressive state of local politics.
But still the overwhelming majority of ordeals used the human body in a manner that tested also its pain endurance.
Disputed accusations of witchcraft could only be settled by ordeal and always resulted in enslavement.
It took herculean efforts to survive the ordeal of fighting in such inhospitable space.
