Magdaleene prefers being physical with women rather than men, and without citing names, state that many women are like her. She married but her husband and her aren't promiscuous, she seduces only women and has affairs with them. Magdaleene testified that her attraction for women appeared when she was 9 and saw two women having an affair.
Historians should be cautious when reading such statements which may reflect more the vision of the judges than actual behaviors. Textual analysis of the trial's interrogation shows how the judges read the behavior of Magdaleene as man-like, driven, upon passive female victims, seduced while cheated, forced. Neighbors testify and confirm the sulfurous reputation and behavior of Magdaleene. Some days later, Magdaleene and the lady are observed running naked in crop fields up to a local lake. He surprised his wife, Magdaleene, in the stable with another woman. Magdeleene's husband, recently tried and condemned to death by hanging for horse thief, accused his wife of being hermaphrodite.
1618, two women, Magdaleene and Mayken are tried over homosexuality in Bruges.They detail the executions of monks for homosexuality in Ghent on June 28, 1578. 1616 - Willem Baudartius writes and Michiel Colijn illustrates the history book: Afbeeldinghe, ende beschrijvinghe van alle de veld-slagen, belegeringen, en̄ and're notable geschiedenissen, ghevallen in de Nederlanden, geduerende d'oorloghe teghens den coningh van Spaengien.Lesbianism and hermaphroditism, depicted here in an engraving circa 1690, were very similar concepts during the Renaissance.