Capgra's syndrome (health) and ordeal (sh)

Capgra's syndrome (health)

The delusion that others, or the self, have been replaced by imposters. It typically follows the development of negative feelings toward the Other person that the subject cannot accept and attributes, instead, to the imposter. The syndrome has been reported in paranoid schizophrenia and, even more frequently, in organic brain disease.

ordeal (sh)

In customary law, a test of guilt or innocence in which the accused undergoes dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control.

Ordeals by fire or water are the most common. Burns suffered while passing through fire (as in Hindu custom) or rejection (i.e., being buoyed up) by a body of water (as in witch trials) would be regarded as proof of guilt. In ordeal by combat, as in the medieval duel, the victor is said to win not by his own strength but because supernatural powers have intervened on the side of the right.

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