The Mouth of Truth ('Bocca della Verita') - located in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, Italy. Became a famed lie detector in the Middle Ages, the belief being that is one told a lie with one's hand in the mouth of the carving, it would bite the hand off!!
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