Her crimes were many and varied enough to provide contemporary writers with long pages of delectable matter. Thus, Holland declares, in "A Treatise Against Witchcraft" (1590), that:-- They renounce God and all true religion. They blaspheme and provoke His Divine Majesty with unspeakable contempt. They believe in the Devill, adore him, and sacrifice unto him. They offer their children unto devills. They sweare unto Satan, and promise to bring as many as they can unto his service and profession. They invocate Satan in their praiers, and sweare by his name. Besides preaching gross immorality:-- They commit horrible murders, and kill young infants. All Sorcerers for the most part exercise poison, and to kill with poison is far more heinous than simple murder. They kill men's cattle. And, lastly, the witches (as they themselves confesse) commit many abominations and filthenes. Other accounts follow similar lines or add further indictments; as Jean Bodin, who also details the crimes of eating human flesh and drinking blood, destroying fruit and causing famine and sterility. Generally speaking, then, the crimes of witchcraft fall under the headings of offences against religion and the Church; of those against the community in general, such as causing epidemics or bad weather; and of those against individuals, including murder, especially of young children, causing disease, and injury to property. Such catholic appreciation in wrong-doing could not fail to arouse the disapproval of all right-thinking people, and as the mere charge of witchcraft, supported by any one accusation, implied the perpetration of all these various misdeeds, it is scarcely wonderful that the witch, once apprehended, had small chance of escape.