Note 199 — Chapter III · THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT
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The conceptions which underlay this were embodied in the mediæval jurisprudence of Europe, and curious reports exist of the trials of cocks, rats, flies, dogs, and even ants, which lasted down to the eighteenth century (see Baring-Gould, Curiosities of Olden Times, second edit., pp. 57-73).