Circle eight is divided into ten pouches and deal with the sin fraud. The third pouch is about Simoniacs, or people who profited by the selling of church offices or pardons, the abuse of power with in a church. Pretty much this pouch deals with corruption of the church. These people are buried head first with flames burning their feet. Their punishment is a kind of reverse baptism; they are upside-down in holes and baptized by fire, not water. The holes in the ground represent coin pouches that were used by the church officials to store the money they received. The upside down position is a reverse baptism, as stated earlier, but rather than being blessed upright they are being damned face down. Oil is usually associated with greed or wealth.
