Sassywood

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Sassywood is a form of trial by ordeal in use in Liberia.[1][2] There are various types of ordeal. The principal one involves the drinking of a poisonous concoction made of the bark of the tree Erythrophleum suaveolens.[1][2]

There are other forms of ordeal also described as "sassywood". Some that have been described involve the rubbing of a red-hot machete on the legs of suspects,[3] or dipping the suspect's hand into hot oil.[4]

A poison drink ordeal of the same name has also been reported in neighboring Sierra Leone.[5]

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