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** Me saved a village from scarlet fever and gets dunked in the river as a witch by the {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s. As she's effectively immortal, she just escapes underwater and it's assumed that she drowned.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. A deleted line in the shooting script for "The Witch" had Giles consulting his books on the best way to find a witch, only to come up with the drowning test. He admits that his texts are [[TomeOfEldritchLore somewhat outdated]].



* ''Series/DoctorWho'': For having the ''sheer audacity'' to use her own name, among other things, [[TheNthDoctor/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] was subjected to ducking, and likely would have drowned were it not for having learned to escape restraints during 'a wet weekend with Houdini'.

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For having the ''sheer audacity'' to use her own name, among other things, [[TheNthDoctor/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] was subjected to ducking, and likely would have drowned were it not for having learned to escape restraints during 'a wet weekend with Houdini'.Houdini'.
** Me saved a village from scarlet fever and gets dunked in the river as a witch by the {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s. As she's effectively immortal, she just escapes underwater and it's assumed that she drowned.
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' The theocratic nation of Ishgard has been at war with dragons for a thousand years. In that time, there have always been defectors who side with the dragons and try to destroy Ishgard from within. To root out these heretics, the trial by ordeal is the Witchdrop, a deep chasm in Coerthas. The accused are brought to the Witchdrop among a priest of the Holy Sea, an inquisitor and a squadron of archers. After their rights are read, the accused is tossed into the chasm. A heratic would either be rescued from the fall by their draconic masters or would ingest dragon blood to become a dragon themselves. In either case, the archers would make short work of the guilty and any accomplices. If the accused fell to their death, they would be deemed innocent post-mortem and would be absolved of their sins and enter Halone's halls.

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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' The theocratic nation of Ishgard has been at war with dragons for a thousand years. In that time, there have always been defectors who side with the dragons and try to destroy Ishgard from within. To root out these heretics, the trial by ordeal is the Witchdrop, a deep chasm in Coerthas. The accused are brought to the Witchdrop among a priest of the Holy Sea, See, an inquisitor and a squadron of archers. After their rights are read, the accused is tossed into the chasm. A heratic would either be rescued from the fall by their draconic masters or would ingest dragon blood to become a dragon themselves. In either case, the archers would make short work of the guilty and any accomplices. If the accused fell to their death, they would be deemed innocent post-mortem and would be absolved of their sins and enter Halone's halls.

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