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- Sassywood is an ancient West African form of trial by ordeal. Although it has been outlawed due to human rights concerns, it remains in sporadic use in...6 KB (738 words) - 00:02, 2 July 2024
to make a toxic concoction used for a form of trial by ordeal called "sassywood". This use has given it the common name of the "Ordeal Tree". "Erythrophleum...3 KB (224 words) - 22:20, 15 December 2021
primary use is as a toxin in ancient West African ordeal trials, called sassywood. The process has largely been outlawed, but due to the limited judicial...7 KB (666 words) - 04:13, 5 June 2024
1828 and 1861. Ancient Liberian cultures practiced a tradition known as sassywood. In it, a poisonous brew of erythrophleine, extracted from the bark of...41 KB (5,223 words) - 13:33, 7 July 2024
to the forced imbibition of a decoction of the bark of the sasswood (sassywood) tree/vine (Erythrophleum suaveolens or guineense). If the person dies...15 KB (1,962 words) - 18:20, 17 July 2024
- American) IPA(key): /ˈsæsiwʊd/ Hyphenation: sas‧sy‧wood sassywood (usually uncountable, plural sassywoods) A form of trial by ordeal in Liberia, typically involving
- people must agree to abandon the slave-trade, to discontinue the use of sassywood, engage in no war except by permission of the colonial government." On