In 1563, a physician named Johan Wier carefully treaded on the subject by suggesting that witchcraft was more a matter for physicians than for theologists or magistrates and that diseases were very frequently due to natural causes than due to witchcraft. He believed only that the devil was evil and he made the witches think evil thoughts, for this the were not entirely sane and did not deserve to be executed. He did not believe that they rode in the air or bewitched their neighbors. Later when some girls began throwing hysterical fits and accusing women of witchcraft, the attending physician concluded that the girl was lying. When the physician prodded the girl to tell the truth she admitted that the fit was feigned and she had done it for her father who had wanted revenge on their neighbor. There were many other cases that were confirmed as a fraud. These ideas spread and drew the Elizabethan Era witch trials to a close. In this, much resembling the Salem witch trials, there was doubt among the people that innocents were being accused. Witchcraft was no longer an accepted crime or even a reason for punishment. Thus, it was no longer possible to prosecute or punish someone or their goods for witchcraft. The trials had left everyone very distrusting, but the new law had come to say and no one dared defy it and people eventually made peace with the accusations. (Hole 157-167)