Though few realize it, least of all in the courtroom, this idea of swearing a sacred oath by “placing a hand under one’s thigh” (on or near the testicles) survives today—nearly four thousand years later—in the word “testify.”
Though few realize it, least of all in the courtroom, this idea of swearing a sacred oath by “placing a hand under one’s thigh” (on or near the testicles) survives today—nearly four thousand years later—in the word “testify.”