And Jean Bodin (noted in a later chapter for his reasonable views on the evaluation of histories) says of witches that “one accused of being a witch ought never to be fully acquitted and set free unless the calumny of the accuser is clearer than the sun, inasmuch as the proof of such crimes is so obscure and so difficult that not one witch in a million would be accused or punished if the procedure were governed by the usual rules.”
