In some societies guilt and innocence are determined by having a red-hot knife pressed against some part of the accused person's body; if they are innocent, they are not burned. This is an example of a(n):



An ordeal

Explanation:

An ordeal is simply referred to as a difficult and a tough time or experience.there are different scenarios of ordeals. There are ordeal by trails, fire, momentos and others.

trial by ordeal is simply when an individual said to be be an accused was tortured,if no wounds at all or if wounds healed quickly was considered innocent. E. G ordeal by boiling water, ordeal by hot iron and others types.