Witchfinders

I'm watching something that has a witchfinder doing the typical trial by ordeal. In this case, a dunking stool.

they actual got it right in that the witchfinder proclaimed that if they died, they were innocent, but if they survived, they were guilty and would be hung. (far too many shows have the guilty being burned. That wasn't they way it was done in England and the colonies, nor in many other places).

But a thought occurred to me...

"Excuse me, but if an innocent person is put to death, isn't that *murder under the law? And wouldn't that make her accusers guilty of at the very least perjury, if not something worse?"

"Seems to me even if the trial by ordeal is legal, those folks need to be punished for their false accusations..."

Incense burner

When I was getting up (many hours ago) I had an odd thought.

I want an incense burner that looks like a sleeping dragon. The smoke would come out of his nostrils.

Alas, the closest I found online was just the head and neck of a dragon, pointing straight up.

I realize there'd be some problems, such as the smoke tending to pool at the high point of the dragon's body before coming out the nostrils. That'd require an inner shell to remove that extra space.

Of course, one possibility is a tiny fan or the like to push it out. Pulse it and it could look like like the dragon was breathing. Extra credit if you can run it of the heat of the incense.

If you do go with battery power, might as well have some dim LEDs shining from under the not entirely closed eyelids....