The name "Baphomet" comes up in several of these confessions. Peter Partner states in his 1987 book "The Knights Templar and their Myth": "In the trial of the Templars one of their main charges was their supposed worship of a heathen idol-head known as a 'Baphomet' ('Baphomet' = Mahomet)." The description of the object changed from confession to confession. Some Templars denied any knowledge of it. Others, under torture, described it as being either a severed head, a cat, or a head with three faces. The Templars did possess several silver-gilt heads as reliquaries, including one marked "capud m", another said to be St. Euphemia, and possibly the actual head of Hugues de Payens. The claims of an idol named Baphomet were unique to the Inquisition of the Templars. Karen Ralls, author of the "Knights Templar Encyclopedia", argues that it is significant that "no specific evidence Baphomet appears in either the Templar Rule or in other medieval period Templar documents."