right|upright=1.4|thumb|A body in its coffin starts to bleed in the presence of the murderer in an illustration of the laws of Hamburg in 1497 Cruentation ( 'law of bleeding' or 'law of the bier') was one of the medieval methods of finding proof against a suspected murderer. The common belief was that the body of the victim would spontaneously bleed in the presence of the murderer.
right|upright=1.4|thumb|A body in its coffin starts to bleed in the presence of the murderer in an illustration of the laws of Hamburg in 1497 Cruentation ( 'law of bleeding' or 'law of the bier') was one of the medieval methods of finding proof against a suspected murderer. The common belief was that the body of the victim would spontaneously bleed in the presence of the murderer.
Cruentation was used in Germanic law systems as early as the medieval period, whence it spread to Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Scotland, and European colonies in North America. The practice is mentioned in the Germanic epic poem Nibelungenlied, which was written around 1200. It continued being used as a method to determine guilt of murder in Germany until the middle of the 18th century.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).