Crime and Punishment
The punishment for serious crimes is known as "Two Bowls" ("Dwai Sholo")- the criminal is held in a small room in the house of their Khirnari and, each day, offered two bowls of food- one is poisoned, one is not. Each day he may choose to take one of the bowls or refuse both. If he manages to pick the non-poisoned bowl for one-hundred-and-one days the criminal is named as being chosen for forgiveness from Aura and so released. Very few manage it.
Read more about this topic: Aurenfaie
Famous quotes containing the words crime and/or punishment:
“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)