 During the reign of Philip IV there were registered complaints of the Inquisitors about people who "Blasphemated, mostly in winter, just to be detained and fed inside the prison".Despite some popular accounts, modern historians state that torture was only ever used to confirm information or a confession, not for punitive reasons.Rafael Sabatinni states that among the methods of torture allowed, and common in other secular and ecclesiastical tribunals, were "garrucha", "toca" and the "potro", even though those claims contradict both the Inquisitorial law and the claims made by Kamen.