tangena

Flashman is the only survivor of the tanguin, or tangena, ordeal to have written of the experience.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Some came who looked like praying people, but I was afraid to ask them, and perhaps they were afraid to speak; for, as you know, the Queen's spies are abroad everywhere now, and if they find one whom they suspect of praying to Jesus they seize him and drag him away to the ordeal of ` tangena '-- perhaps to torture and death.

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859

It is enough to say that the people shall be examined -- by the tangena ordeal if necessary -- and they shall be punished according to their deserts.

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859

Now tangena is a fruit of which a little vomits the patient, and a good deal poisons or kills him; a quality which sufficiently explains how they manage that ordeal.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

"Now I decree that all Bibles and books of the new religion shall be delivered up to be destroyed, that all who are guilty shall come in classes, according to the nature of their offences, and accuse themselves of having been baptized, of being members of the church, of having taught slaves to read -- all shall come to the officers and confess; but those who conceal their offence and are accused by others shall be subjected to the ordeal of the tangena, and those who resist my commands shall die, saith Ranavalo-manjaka."

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859