_Ans._ If this be true, I maintaine them not herein: but there is a lawe to judge them by. Howbeit, it is so contrarie to sense and nature, that it were follie to beleeve it; either upon _Bodins_ bare word, or else upon his presumptions; speciallie when so small commoditie and so great danger and inconvenience insueth to the witches thereby. They burne their children when they have sacrificed them. 6 _Ans._ Then let them have such punishment, as they that offered their children unto _Moloch_: _Levit._ 20. But these be meere devises of witchmoongers and inquisitors, that with extreame tortures have wroong such confessions from them; or else with false reports have beelied them; or by flatterie & faire words and promises have woon it at their hands, at the length. They sweare to the divell to bring as manie into that societie as 7 they can. _Ans._ This is false, and so prooved elsewhere. They sweare by the name of the divell. 8 _Ans._ I never heard anie such oth, neither have we warrant to kill them that so doo sweare; though indeed it be verie lewd and impious. They use incestuous adulterie with spirits. 9 _Ans._ This is a stale ridiculous lie, as is prooved apparentlie hereafter. They boile infants (after they have murthered them unbaptised) 10 untill their flesh be made potable. _Ans._ This is untrue, incredible, and impossible. They eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of men and children openlie. 11 _Ans._ Then are they kin to the _Anthropophagi_ and _Canibals_. But I beleeve never an honest man in _England_ nor in _France_, will affirme that he hath seene any of these persons, that are said to be witches, do so; if they shuld, I beleeve it would poison them. They kill men with poison. 12 _Ans._ Let them be hanged for their labour. They kill mens cattell. 13 _Ans._ Then let an action of trespasse be brought against them for so dooing. They bewitch mens corne, and bring hunger and barrennes into the 14 countrie; they ride and flie in the aire, bring stormes, make tempests, &c. _Ans._ Then will I worship them as gods; for those be not the works of man, nor yet of witch: as I have elsewhere prooved at large. They use venerie with a divell called _Incubus_, even when they lie 15 in bed with their husbands, and have children by them, which become the best witches. _Ans._ This is the last lie, verie ridiculous, and confuted by me elsewhere. The tenth Chapter. _A refutation of the former surmised crimes patched togither by Bodin, and the onelie waie to escape the inquisitors hands._ If more ridiculous or abhominable crimes could have beene invented, these poore women (whose cheefe fault is that they are scolds) should have beene charged with them.