Ordeal by water was associated with the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, although in this scenario the outcome was reversed-- if the accused sank, they were considered innocent, while floating indicated witchcraft. Demonologists developed inventive new theories about how it worked. The ordeal would normally be conducted with a rope holding the subject connected to assistants sitting in a boat or the like, so that the person being tested could be pulled in if he/she did not float; the notion that the ordeal was flatly devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was 'innocent', is a modern exaggeration. Some argued that witches floated because they had renounced baptism when entering the Devil's service. Jacob Rickius claimed that they were supernaturally light and recommended weighing them as an alternative to dunking them; this procedure and its status as an alternative to dunking were parodied in the 1975 British film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) claimed in his "Daemonologie" that water was so pure an element that it repelled the guilty. A witch trial including this ordeal took place in Szeged, Hungary as late as 1728. The ordeal of water is also contemplated by the Vishnu Smrti, which is one of the texts of the Dharmaśāstra. Although the test itself was identical, this was different from other forms of trial by ordeal in that it did not typically rely on divine intervention to determine guilt or innocence; it was just assumed it was a physical property of witches that they floated, and thus this was an easy way to determine guilt. God did not have to intervene to make the accused sink or float.