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13 Cards in this Set
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Panderers and seducers
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They are endlessly driven like cattle by the demons and their whips. Their sin is that they drove others to serve their own evil wills and now they are themselves driven by evil.
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Flatterers
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The Flatterers are here sunk in a 'river of excrement.'
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Simoniacs
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Their punishment is that they are placed upside down in a hole, with their feet on fire. Since these sinners mocked their holy offices, the holy office mocks them as the holes resemble baptismal fonts.
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Fortune tellers
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they must forever walk backwards while their heads are turned around on their bodies
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Thieves
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w hen the sinner is bitten, he bursts into flames, only to painfully be made back to be tortured again.
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Deceivers
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they are hidden from all sight in Hell as they are forever consumed by flames.
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Sowers of discord
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they are cut and hacked up by a demon with a sharp sword
After they are cut to pieces, they are compelled to walk around dragging whatever they have left of themselves. |
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Hypocrites
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They are forced to wear heavy robes and walk in circles
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Falsifiers
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The Falsifiers are subject to the filth of the ground, the darkness of the sky, the stench of the air, the thirst of their throats, diseases of their bodies, and other torments. Some of them are compelled to run crazy throught the Bolgia and visciously attack others. They dash up, land on them, and rip and tear them apart
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Grafters
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Whenever the devils see a sinner peeping out of the water, they stab them and toss them asunder forever.
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Treacherous to their guests
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hese sinners are in the ice so far that only half of their faces show. As they cry, their tears seal their eyes shut--they are denied even the comfort of tears.
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Treacherous to their country
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hey are also buried in the ice up to their necks, but they are unable to bend their necks.
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Treacherous to their kin
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The sinners here are stuck in the ice up to their necks--they can move their necks and bow their heads.
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