Today’s Testy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In Natal, South Africa, in March 1824, a hundred and fifty witch-finders ‘smelt out’ over three hundred tribesmen, declaring them all guilty of smearing the royal kraal, the palace, with blood. However, Shaka, the ruler, declared them all to be innocent, stating that he had smeared the kraal himself to test the powers of the diviners. He then sentenced all the witch-finders to be executed, and this was carried out, they being skewered or clubbed to death.
Culled from: The Book Of Execution
Ooooooooh!!! Shaka is sneaky!
Brilliant! Could we make a similar test for other hucksters?
James Randi lists a similar test for one of those object mediums, people who claim they know the history of an object just from its touch. They all failed.