For they would draw some men up in the air on ropes, and torment them, pushing their bodies as they hung, like a ball that is tossed; or they would put a kid's hide under the feet of others as they walked, and, by stealthily pulling a rope, trip their unwary steps on the slippery skill in their path; others they would strip of their clothes, and lash with sundry tortures of stripes; others they fastened to pegs, as with a noose, and punished with mock-hanging.

They scorched off the beard and hair with tapers; of others they burned the hair of the groin with a brand.

Only those maidens might marry whose chastity they had first deflowered.

Strangers they battered with bones; others they compelled to drunkenness with immoderate draughts, and made them burst.

No man might give his daughter to wife unless he had first bought their favour and goodwill.