“They eat one another, the victor [eats] the vanquished,” he wrote. “I know a man… who was reputed to have eaten more than 300 human 
bodies…” The women are intensely desirable: “none… among them who had a flabby breast,” but they are also monsters and witches: “… Being very lustful, [they] cause the private parts of their husbands to swell up to such a huge size that they appear deformed and disgusting… in consequence of this many lose their organs which break through lack of attention, and they remain eunuchs… When [the women] had the opportunity of copulating with Christians, urged by excessive lust, they defiled… themselves.”