In the fifteenth century, Gilles de Rais, accused of having been and of being still 'a relapsed heretic, a sorcerer, a sodomite, an invoker of evil spirits, a diviner, a killer of the innocent, an apostate, an idolater, and a man who refused to see the error of his ways', ended up admitting his crimes 'which were enough to send people to their deaths' in an extra judicial confession.