 They attacked the towns and spared neither the children, nor the aged, nor pregnant women, nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them, but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughterhouse. They made some low, wide gallows on which they hanged victims' feet, almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of our Redeemer and His twelve apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive.