Enraged, Samson finds foxes and attaches firebrands to them. Cotton Mather, to his later embarrassment, denounced them as "eight firebrands of Hell". Later the firebrands were replaced with branding irons. Lutheran firebrands warned that Sigismund had the ultimate goal of making Sweden Catholic again. People in canoes would crowd the ocean below Makana, trying to catch the firebrands. She exchanged them for Firebrands for the return voyage. For this reason, they would walk around the forest protecting themselves using firebrands.